Christmas card
Category
Ephemera
Date
1985
Materials
Card, Pen, Ink
Measurements
82 x 132 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749142.10
Summary
Christmas Greetings Card - one of nineteen Christmas cards contained in a white envelope that has been opened via a slit in the top dating to 1985. Front - Bottom opening card, a medieval winter scene of snow covered houses, smoking chimneys and people skating on a frozen river. Inside top - plain white card with printed in black ink in the centre: Winter by Jacob Grimmer c. 1526-1589 Inside bottom - white card printed in the centre: With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year above this handwritten in blue ink: Unc. Billy - and below this handwritten in blue ink: Frank, Anne Sally & Jonathan (underlined) Rear - printed in black ink along the bottom centre: WINTER by Jacob Grimmer c. 1526-1589 Reproduced by permission of Hammerbeck Fine Arts London Published by Gordon Fraser Fine Arts Bedford Printed in England A 18 XF 173-1