Christmas Station
by 1890 · Wood engraving · Getty Research Institute
The whole print, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Thomas Nast (1840–1902)
- Year
- by 1890
- Medium
- Wood engraving
- Collection
- Getty Research Institute (Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race, 1890)
- Movement
- Golden Age of Illustration
- Series
- Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race
Santa Claus's sleigh and reindeer have landed on a snow-covered roof at dusk. Santa sits at the reins with his whip raised. A tall chimney carries a hand-lettered sign that reads Santa Claus Stop Here. Beyond the roof rise a pointed tower with a weathervane and a sky of streaked cloud, while bare branches fill the foreground. The tones are built from close black lines. Thomas Nast made Christmas pictures for Harper's Weekly for more than twenty years, and many of them show Santa's rooftop rounds. This wood engraving is a plate from Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race, published by Harper & Brothers in 1890. The Library of Congress holds a separate impression copyrighted in 1889.
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
Santa's sleigh on a snowy rooftop under a grey dusk sky, in black and white. It suits a hallway or the stair wall for the holiday season, beside Hiroshige's Night Snow at Kanbara; a black frame matches the dark tones.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Golden Age of Illustration painting
- Era
- 19th century (by 1890)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway. 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
