Card
Mowbray and Co.
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
113 x 89 mm
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 936730.10.10
Summary
Nativity card printed by A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., London and Oxford, no. 960. Features a print of a Van Dyke painting of the Madonna and Child within a gold border, the interior with a poem on the Nativity; one of a collection of cards, postcards and labels contained in green cardboard box (DUN/TOY/263, a), lid missing, 'The Wolsley unshrinkable women's white wool bodices, short sleeves', with further paper scraps, a small plain pair of steel scissors, and cardboard strip with three hooks and seven eyes stitched in place.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).
Makers and roles
Mowbray and Co., engraver and publisher