Greetings Card

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A padded, rectangular card with gilt, embossed decoration. The front has a coloured lithograph scrap of two children and a robin against a hand-painted sky with a spray of real fern attached. It bears the words ‘A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR’, and is surrounded by a raised border of polychrome flowers and leaves. The back has a verse printed in blue within a circular frame of pierced and gilt paper.

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Category	Greeting Cards
Object type	Greetings card
Materials and techniques	paper, gilt paper, printer's ink, adhesive, hand painted, plant matter, embossed, colour lithography Paper Printer's Ink Gilt Paper Adhesive Fern Colour Lithography Collage Embossed
Brief description	Anonymous artist: Christmas and New years card, 'A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR', c.1871
Physical description	A padded, rectangular card with gilt, embossed decoration. The front has a coloured lithograph scrap of two children and a robin against a hand-painted sky with a spray of real fern attached. It bears the words ‘A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR’, and is surrounded by a raised border of polychrome flowers and leaves. The back has a verse printed in blue within a circular frame of pierced and gilt paper.
Dimensions	When folded height: 6.8cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971) When folded width: 10cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971)
Credit line	Acquired from the collection of the late Estella Canziani in 1970.
Subjects depicted	New Year New Year Christmas Christmas
Association	Canziani
Bibliographic reference	Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1970
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.2:1-1971

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1068155/greetings-card-unknown/

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