Christmas card
Category
Ephemera
Date
1980
Materials
Card, Ink
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748782.9
Summary
Christmas greeting card-right hand opening white card. Front-coloured reproduction of a painting showing a snow ball fight. In the foreground four boys and a girl, who are hidden behind a tree are making and throwing snowballs at another group of boys, who are standing behind a fence. The children are dressed in Victorian style clothe. Verse in black ink With the Season's Greetings and All Good Wishes for The New Year Signed in blue ink Jean & Dick Hassett Rear white card PLAYING SNOWBALLS Pen, ink and watercolour, 19.3 x 30.7cm Ferdinand Marohn (Working 1839-1865) Reproduced by Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd Ferdinand Marohn was born in Germany and is known to have exhibited at the Berlin Academy between 1839 and 1842. Later he worked in Paris, exhibiting at the Salon between 1846 and 1859. He painted landscapes and "genre" scenes of daily life, such as the picture reproduced here, painted in 1861 and inscribed Une bataille en hiver. The trademark of the Medici society is in the right hand lower corner and the words 7 Grafton St, W.1. Printed in England L-S156