Christmas card
National Trust
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card.
Measurements
95x177mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 294709
Summary
A Christmas card showing five horses in front of a large tree. Inside, the card is printed: on the left ‘Five Mares / George Stubbs ARA (1724-1806) / Rothschild Collection, Ascot, Buckinghamshire – THE NATIONAL TRUST’ and on the right ‘With / BEST WISHES FOR CHRISTMAS / and the / NEW YEAR / Denis & Doreen with love’. The back of the card reads ‘Sold in aid of the National Trust’.
Makers and roles
National Trust, card and cartes manufacturer George Stubbs, RA (Liverpool 1724 – London 1806), painter