Christmas eve / Th. Nast. – Historic Print
![Christmas eve / Th. Nast., [New York] : Harper & Bros., c1899. — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ee/eef32d915429-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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Christmas eve / Th. Nast.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Christmas eve / Th. Nast.
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Thomas Nast's "Christmas Eve" shows soldiers and prayer, a pairing that marks it as a wartime image from the 1860s, when the Civil War kept many families apart at the holidays. Nast was the leading illustrator of his day for *Harper's Weekly*, and his sentimental Christmas drawings from those years, which pictured soldiers in camp and their families at home, helped shape how Americans imagined the holiday. This wood engraving was reissued in *Christmas Drawings for the Human Race*, a Harper & Brothers volume published around 1899 that gathered his earlier holiday work. Viewers today may notice how the picture turns a religious observance into a message about home and sacrifice.
| Created / published | [New York] : Harper & Bros., c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Christmas drawings for the human race / Thomas Nast. New York : Harper & Brothers, printers & publishers, c1899, p. 21. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1860-1870. Soldiers--United States--1860-1870. Prayer--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,314 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-202163 |
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