Hello! Little One!
by 1890 · Wood engraving · Getty Research Institute
The whole print, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
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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 stands among wrapped parcels with a telephone receiver at his ear, smiling as he listens, his pipe in his other hand. Holly sits in his fur cap and mistletoe hangs above him. Shelves of toys fill the room behind: a toy wagon, a jointed puppet and a doll's house. A little girl appears in an arched frame at the upper left. Thomas Nast drew it when the telephone was a new household device. It first appeared in Harper's Weekly on 20 December 1884, paired with a second drawing of the girl, titled Hello! Santa Claus! Both were reprinted in 1890 in Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race, published by Harper & Brothers. It is a wood engraving in black line.
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 on the telephone in his toy-filled workshop, drawn in black line on cream paper. A cheerful holiday piece for a hallway, a family room or a child's room, near Homer's The Country School; frame it in black.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Golden Age of Illustration painting
- Era
- 19th century (by 1890)
- 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 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
