A merry Christmas here and there
- Bib ID:
- 6295529
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [Sydney] : Gibbs, Shallard & Co., [1885]
- 1 card : colour ; 22 cm
- Summary:
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Colour chromolithographed artwork depicting a cockatoo swooping under the Southern Cross over a snow covered village. Verso uncoloured artwork shows an Aboriginal child delivering mail while sitting on an albatross, the albatross carrying a bag (labelled "H.M. Mail") fastened with rope to its feet. A poem appears in a panel on the top left.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- Poem on verso: "All around the snow was falling, / and its softly drifting whirl / Covered deep the little village / where there slept- / In the heart of dear old England - a fair / bright Australian girl, / Whose true heart turned fondly home- / ward while she wept, / While she thought of how the home- / stead in the sunny southern land / Stood in rays of golden sunshine all / the day, / While, like brilliant living snowflakes, / soared the merry cockatoo, / O'er the home she loved and longed / for-far away! ... ".
- Library's copy has some blemishes on the verso.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-153042607
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Gibbs, Shallard & Co, lithographer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the [Christmas cards - miscellaneous pre-1900 - 2019 (arranged by year).
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