Vintage Prints of Santa Claus & Father Christmas
Join us as we look at vintage prints and artwork that document the visual journey of Santa Claus and Father Christmas ,to see the evolution and many changes of Father Christmas throughout the ages.
Victorian Cards
Two Victorian cards showing Father Christmas and his transition toward looking like Santa Claus.
Old Father Christmas
This image was used by Josiah King as the frontispiece for the 1658 and 1678 editions of his pamphlet The Examination and Trial of Old Father Christmas.
The Vindication of Christmas
1653 cover art for The Vindication of Christmas.
Mummers
An illustration by Robert Seymour from The Book of Christmas 1836 by Thomas Kibble Hervey is entitled “Mummers.”
It shows Old Father Christmas with a very long beard acting in a mummers’ play.
Father Christmas Illustrations
Illustrations of Father Christmas from the Illustrated London News.
Christmas Cards
Three Victorian Christmas cards.
Victorian Christmas Cards
Three Victorian Christmas Cards, sometime around the 1860s
The Coming of Father Christmas
An illustration in the book The Coming of Father Christmas.
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