With many Christmas Wishes, Eglantine and Ivy from P. H. Mayo & Brother Tobacco (HP1c)
Issued ca.1880-90 by P. H. Mayo & Brother Tobacco, Richmond, Virginia. Color image of woman walking in winter snow. Around image border are branches and flowers. At upper right on image, blue rectangle advertising Mayo's Tobacco. Lower left, in blue: EGLANTINE AND IVY. Upper border, in blue: With many/ Christmas Wishes. Lower right: Though icy winter crowns the closing year,/ And snow's upon earth's Breast Pie deep, Hearts are not cold that count each other dear – /They yearn to meet and festal Christmas Keep/ E.H.C. Lower left corner: Wirths Bros.& Owen No.238. Copyright. Note: HP1c has been assigned as a "catch all" for advertising cards for the companies Kinney and Mayo and covers a number of and wide variety of subjects and images.
Artwork Details
- Title: With many Christmas Wishes, Eglantine and Ivy from P. H. Mayo & Brother Tobacco (HP1c)
- Publisher: P.H. Mayo & Brother, Richmond, Virginia (American)
- Lithographer: Wirths Bros. & Owen (American, 1860–1910)
- Date: ca.1880–90
- Medium: Commercial color lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 5 5/16 × 4 5/16 in. (13.5 × 11 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
- Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
- Object Number: Burdick 6, HP1c.120
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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