Accession number:
PML 143400
Published:
London : Faber and Faber, [1950]
Description:
1 card : lithograph, col. ; 212 x 170 mm (335 x 423 mm sheet folded three times)
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from front page; at head of text: 1950.
Card is a single sheet folded three times to form two flaps opening to reveal an illustrated interior; sheet is blank on verso; printed in blue, pink, and black.
"This is the fifth of the Christmas cards which Mr Barnett Freedman has drawn and lithographed for the directors and members of Messrs Faber and Faber to send to their friends 24 Russell Square London W.C.1 [at foot] Curwen Press"--Back of card.
Provenance:
From the libraries of Thomas Balston and Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Card features 2 designs by Barnett, including an image of an open book printed across the 2 flaps forming the front of the card, with a space for the sender's inscription, and a festive Christmas parlor scene in the card's interior, flanked by decorations on the flap versos.
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