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Prostanthera lasianthos, commonly known as the Victorian Christmas bush [2] or coranderrk , [3] is a large shrub or small tree of the mint family, Lamiaceae, which is native to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia.
Humorous and sentimental images of children and animals were popular, as were increasingly elaborate shapes, decorations and materials. At Christmas 1873, the lithograph firm Prang and Mayer began creating greeting cards for the popular market in Britain. The firm began selling the Christmas card in America in 1874, thus becoming the first ...
Victorian tartan: Symbols of Victoria: Western Australia: Coat of arms of Western Australia: Badge of Western Australia: Red and green kangaroo paw: Black swan: Numbat: Whale shark Whale shark-Gold and black -Gogo fish [7] Western Australia tartan: Symbols of Western Australia
The Victorian gift book market emerged in a time of mass-production, increased literacy, and growing demand of middle-class buyers. Most gift books were made from 1855 to 1875, the ‘golden age’ of wood-engraved illustration. These books—explicitly intended to be given as gifts—were normally published in late November in time for Christmas.
Original editorial in The Sun of September 21, 1897 "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is a line from an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church.Written in response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real, the editorial was first published in the New York newspaper The Sun on September 21, 1897.
His work, a series of Christmas-themed fairy illustrations, received wider public visibility in the Illustrated London News. The Scottish artist Joseph Noel Paton exhibited two immensely detailed paintings, The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania and The Reconciliation of Titania and Oberon, based on the popular fairy scenes of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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At Christmas 1873, Prang began creating greeting cards for the popular market in England and began selling the Christmas card in America in 1874; he is sometimes called the "father of the American Christmas card." [4] Prang was an active supporter of female artists, both commissioning and collecting artworks by women.