A Stocking Full (published in "Harper's Weekly," January 4, 1879) originally published 1879 Thomas Nast Santa Claus rests in a stocking suspended from a mantle while smoking an old-fashioned long-handled pipe. In 1862, during the dark days of the American Civil War, Nast combined European traditions of St. Nicholas with folk images of elves from his native Germany to create the enduring image of a jolly gift-giver that we now so firmly associate with Christmas. This proof of a wood engraving that Harper's Weekly issued January 4, 1879 shows how small Nast's Santa was. The published version of
A Stocking Full (published in "Harper's Weekly," January 4, 1879) originally published 1879 Thomas Nast Santa Claus rests in a stocking suspended from a mantle while smoking an old-fashioned long-handled pipe. In 1862, during the dark days of the American Civil War, Nast combined European traditions of St. Nicholas with folk images of elves from his native Germany to create the enduring image of a jolly gift-giver that we now so firmly associate with Christmas. This proof of a wood engraving that Harper's Weekly issued January 4, 1879 shows how small Nast's Santa was. The published version of the image adorned on a page of holiday A Stocking Full (published in "Harper's Weekly," January 4, 1879). Thomas Nast (American (born Germany), Landau 1840–1902 Guayaquil). originally published 1879. Relief print and electrotype. Prints
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