Greetings Card

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Artist/Maker	Marcus Ward (publisher) Unknown (artist)
Place of origin	England (made)

New Year card, and envelope. Colour lithograph with embossed and pierced border. 5 small children with a large wreath, the boy in front carrying a card printed with ‘A Happy New Year’. Lettered below “May Joy Around they Footsteps Play”. Published by Marcus Ward & Co. Envelope decorated with a woodcut showing a dragon in a bush inscribed XMAS SNAP being attacked by a naked boy with a shield and a sprig of holly.

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Category	Greeting Cards
Object type	Greetings card
Materials and techniques	printer's ink, paper, embossed, pierced, colour lithography, woodcut Paper Printer's Ink Colour Lithography Woodcut Pierced Embossed
Brief description	Published by Marcus Ward & Co.: New Year card and envelope, 'A Happy New Year', colour lithograph card and envelope decorated with a woodcut of a dragon inscribed 'XMAS SNAP', 1877
Physical description	New Year card, and envelope. Colour lithograph with embossed and pierced border. 5 small children with a large wreath, the boy in front carrying a card printed with ‘A Happy New Year’. Lettered below “May Joy Around they Footsteps Play”. Published by Marcus Ward & Co. Envelope decorated with a woodcut showing a dragon in a bush inscribed XMAS SNAP being attacked by a naked boy with a shield and a sprig of holly.
Dimensions	When folded height: 8.2cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971) Card only width: 11.8cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971)
Marks and inscriptions	XMAS SNAP (Inscribed on envelope) A Happy New Year/May Joy Around they Footsteps Play (Lettered)
Credit line	Acquired from the collection of the late Estella Canziani in 1970.
Association	Canziani
Bibliographic reference	Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1970
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.4:7-1971

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1040332/greetings-card-unknown/

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