Publication Date
1-1-2007
Document Type
From the Collections
First Page
105
Last Page
110
Abstract
The Rainy Day Christmas Card, donated to the Maine Historical Society Library by Earl Shettleworth, was designed by Rafael Tuck & Sons in London and printed in the 1880s or 1890s at the First Fine Arts Works Studios, Saxony. Other Victorian Christmas cards produced by Tuck (1821-1900) contain similarly un-Christmas-like images: a bouquet of damask roses; wild flowers; apple blossoms; green Scottish heathland; idyllic fishing nets in a rural village; a country churchyard with newly-green birch trees beyond a waterfall. Clearly, behind the clouds of an English Christmas, somewhere, the sun must be shining.
Recommended Citation
Kaufmann, Charles "Chip". "Even Santa Has Bad Days: The Rainy Day Christmas Card." Maine History 43, 1 (2007): 105-110. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol43/iss1/8