Greetings Card

License this image

To license this image or for more information please contact our Licensing team.

We can manage your request more quickly if you include the following information:

Image reference number: XXX
Title and author (if applicable)
Publisher/Producer/Broadcaster
Planned release date
Print run or number of units
Image size and position, example 1/4 page, full screen, front cover, inside
Languages/territorial distribution
Digital rights - format details and license period

We don’t have an image of this object online yet. V&A Images may have a photograph that we can’t show online, but it may be possible to supply one to you. Email us at vaimages@vam.ac.uk for guidance about fees and timescales, quoting the accession number: CIRC.2:2-1971

Find out about our images

Request to view at the Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C , Case GG, Shelf 196

Artist/Maker

Unknown (artist)

A rectangular card decorated with stylised leaf scrolls in green, yellow, pink and blue on a gilt ground. An oval reserve in the centre bears the words ‘WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR’.

Object details

Category	Greeting Cards
Object type	Greetings card
Materials and techniques	paper, printer's ink, gilt paper, printed Paper Printer's Ink Gilt Paper Printed
Brief description	Anonymous artist: New Year card, 'WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR', c.1871
Physical description	A rectangular card decorated with stylised leaf scrolls in green, yellow, pink and blue on a gilt ground. An oval reserve in the centre bears the words ‘WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR’.
Dimensions	When folded height: 6.3cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971) When folded width: 9.5cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971)
Marks and inscriptions	WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR (Lettered on oval reserve in centre of card)
Credit line	Acquired from the collection of the late Estella Canziani in 1970.
Subjects depicted	New Year New Year
Association	Canziani
Bibliographic reference	Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1970
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.2:2-1971

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1068154/greetings-card-unknown/

Download as: JSON

License this image

Download image

Object details

About this object record

You may also like