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Christmas Card

c.1870s (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

1 of 158 Christmas and New Year cards.

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Object details

Categories
Christmas
Greeting Cards
Ephemera
Object type
Christmas card
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph, paper-lace, fabric appliqué, etc.
Printing Ink
Paper
Card
Lithography
Brief description
Anonymous. One of a large collection of Christmas and New Year's cards, British, c.1870s
Physical description
1 of 158 Christmas and New Year cards.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little
Subject depicted
Greeting Cards
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1971-1953

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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