[Family with Christmas pudding, 1858] – Vintage Print
![[Family with Christmas pudding, 1858], [1952] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cd/cd2c5c016eb7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Family with Christmas pudding, 1858]
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A 1952 photographic copy of an 1858 lithograph, this print shows a family gathered around a Christmas pudding, a dish that had become a centerpiece of the holiday table by the mid-nineteenth century. Printmakers of that period often took domestic scenes of holiday celebration as their subject, and such images helped shape how families pictured Christmas at home. The record credits the reproduction to the Ruth Lundgren Company but does not name the original artist, so the picture is best read as an example of the sentimental, family-centered Christmas that Victorian-era prints promoted.
| Created / published | [1952] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1850-1860 Reproductions.Photographic prints 1950-1960. |
| Notes | Photo from Ruth Lundgren Company. Photographic reproduction of lithograph. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1850-1860. Plum puddings--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,251 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-190985 |
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