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Christmas has come early this year for lovers of E.H. Shepard‘s iconic Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. Mark Burgess has created a new suite of drawings in the style of Shepard, featuring Pooh ...
The second of Nast's Christmas illustrations from January 1863. Thomas Nast In addition to repurposing the imagery of the Moore poem—reindeer pulling a sleigh, sack full of presents—Nast also ...
While Charles Dickens is often remembered for his love of yuletide festivities, the illustrations he commissioned for his Christmas stories may make you question such an opinion. With titles such ...
British artist Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was the pre-eminent illustrator of the early 20th century. His imaginative colour interpretations of fairy tales and fantasy literature featured gossamer ...
In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree. Many variations of the image began to circulate, popularizing the festive trend.
On the walls there is a framed 1870 Harper’s Weekly Christmas illustration by Civil War artist Thomas Nast (often credited with creating the popular image of Santa Claus), a 1904 Christmas ...
Starting in the early-1950s (and continuing into the 1960s), Hee had a contract to produce an album of 30 Christmas Card designs annually for California Artists Inc., a greeting card maker that ...
has hosted the Together at Christmas carol service at the abbey for the past four years. This year’s service features a specially commissioned festive illustration by artist Charlie Mackesy and ...
Send an email to Virginia. In many homes across the country, it’s not Christmas without sitting down to watch an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” But according to ...