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Greetings Card

1877 (made)
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.

Object details

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 createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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