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Louis Prang, a Prussian immigrant with a print shop near Boston, is credited with creating the first Christmas card originating in the United States in 1875. It was very different from Cole...
Queen Victoria sent the first official Christmas card, and Sir Henry Cole, who amongst other things was an assistant to Sir Rowland Hill in the introduction of the penny post and the first Director of the V&A, commissioned the first commercial Christmas card in 1843.
History. The world's first commercially produced Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley for Henry Cole in 1843. Children looking at Christmas cards in New York 1910. Christmas card by Louis Prang, showing a group of anthropomorphized frogs parading with banner and band.
Our founding director, Henry Cole, sent the first Christmas card in 1843. We now hold the national collection of cards for all occasions, with over 30,000 examples, more than half of which celebrate Christmas. Discover the origins of this very Victorian tradition.
The first Victorian Christmas card, commissioned by Henry Cole in 1843, showed different generations of Cole's family raising a toast and two acts of charity to the poor. Why did Victorians send Christmas cards?
The story of the very first commercial Christmas card, the 1843 creation of British arts patron Henry Cole and illustrator John Calcott Horsley.
Louis Prang, a Prussian immigrant with a print shop near Boston, is credited with creating the first Christmas card originating in the United States in 1875. It was very different from Cole and...