Christmas Morning: After Daylight
1871 · Hand-coloured lithograph · Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The whole print, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Kellogg & Bulkeley (lithographic firm, Hartford, Connecticut, from 1867)
- Year
- 1871
- Medium
- Hand-coloured lithograph
- Collection
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Movement
- Victorian
Two girls play with their Christmas presents in a bedroom. One, kneeling in a red dress with a blue hair bow, holds a doll in a pink frock, and the other, in a blue dress, leans over the brass bed rail, where a toy figure dangles on a string. A small framed picture of a white cat hangs on the patterned yellow wallpaper behind them, and a gold coverlet spills across the foreground. Kellogg & Bulkeley of Hartford, Connecticut, published this hand-coloured lithograph in 1871. It is the partner of Christmas Morning: Before Daylight, which shows the same girls asleep with the presents at the foot of their bed. The firm grew out of the Kellogg brothers' lithography business, which had sold decorative prints since the 1830s. This impression is in the Library of Congress.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Two girls with a new doll, in red, blue, pink and gold against yellow wallpaper. It suits a child's room or a family landing for the holiday season with its partner, Before Daylight, or Homer's Snap the Whip, in a dark wood frame.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Victorian painting
- Era
- 19th century (1871)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, kids room, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from a scan of the original print, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
