Wrapped up warm for Christmas in England in the late 1800s, two little girls in fur-trimmed coats and clogs. Pen and ink drawing for the front of a Christmas card, made circa 1880 by a Victorian child, May Chatteris Fisher (1874 - 1910).
Pen and ink drawing for the front of a Christmas card, created as a child by May Chatteris Fisher (1874-1910), who later became a professional artist. The card is inscribed on the back 'With May's love to Grandpa' and was probably made for May's maternal grandfather, John Chatteris, who lived at the family home. We have assumed from the style of the picture that the artist was probably no more than 6 or 7 years old at the time. This means that the drawing probably dates from circa 1880. May was born near Manchester in north west England, the second of three sisters. As an adult, and after studying at the Manchester Municipal School of Art, she became an accomplished book illustrator and bookplate designer. In 1901 and 1904, she illustrated two books of children’s fairy tales for the publishers Sherratt & Hughes: ‘Ignoramus’ by E. Todd and ‘Pixie’ by Frances Reddaway. In 1902, her works were praised in a survey, published in New York, of female bookplate designers on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1904, May married the established landscape painter, William Smallwood Winder (1869-1910), and subsequently signed her work MC Winder.
Size: 9352px × 14028px
Location: England
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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