Hampshire greeting card
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Type of Work
- Finished work 5482
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- lithography 133
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A well-aged, image dominant, Christmas-themed greeting card. This print depicts a stylized snowy townscape with its focus being a white church steeple with red bells in the foreground surrounded by green pine trees. In the midground lies various red buildings with a few leafless trees. A warm yellow light emerges from both the bells connected to the steeple and the windows of the buildings. In the background lies a rocky forested landscape, encompassing the sky above is a blue night filled with bright stars. The inside of the card boasts another gorgeous illustration of the town from a different angle. On the right side of the card resides a short typographic segment with a light, stylized cursive script. The illustrations showcase a mix of realism with abstract and stylized buildings with flat. This card was printed in the United States by the Hampshire company, the date of this is unknown. However, this card was gifted in 1958, by courtesy of the writing on the inside. The condition of the card consists of a natural aging of the paper, aside from this is has been well-preserved.