Greetings Card

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

Hand drawn Christmas Card and envelope. Water-colour and pen and ink. A Gnome sitting on a Christmas pudding with another gnome clasping a bottle of wine and lettered ‘A Merry Christmas’, signed on back E W F inv. The envelope drawn on both sides in pen and ink with on the front, a lady with a large Christmas pudding and a dog.

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Category	Greeting Cards
Object type	Greetings card
Materials and techniques	Watercolour and pen and ink drawing on paper Paper Watercolour Pen and Ink Hand Drawn
Brief description	Anonymous artist: Hand drawn Christmas Card and envelope, watercolour and pen and ink, addressed to Miss L. Starr, 1870
Physical description	Hand drawn Christmas Card and envelope. Water-colour and pen and ink. A Gnome sitting on a Christmas pudding with another gnome clasping a bottle of wine and lettered ‘A Merry Christmas’, signed on back E W F inv. The envelope drawn on both sides in pen and ink with on the front, a lady with a large Christmas pudding and a dog.
Dimensions	When folded height: 5.2cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971) When folded width: 7cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971) Envelope size height: 8.3cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971) Envelope size width: 10.6cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971)
Marks and inscriptions	Miss L. Starr, No 14 Russell Square, WC, London (Hand written address on envelope) E W F (Signed on back of card)
Credit line	Acquired from the collection of the late Estella Canziani in 1970.
Subjects depicted	Christmas Christmas Canziani
Associations	Canziani Louisa Canziani
Bibliographic reference	Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1970
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.1:15-1971

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1040406/greetings-card-unknown/

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