print; christmas-card; postcard

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print; christmas-card; postcard

Object Type: print; christmas-card; postcard
Museum number: 1947,1011.5.1-79
Description: Ring-binder album bound in blue leather and leatherette, with gold tooling; paper label on spine inscr.: ‘1900-1908’. Note in QM’s hand pasted inside front board of album: ‘Christmas and New / Year Cards sent to / Queen Mary.’ Album comprises 37 unnumbered pages; it was previously used by KGV for stamp collecting, see his notes in the margins. Cards are pasted on recto only as pages are back-lined with tissue paper; some the glue material remains strong. Some signs of brown staining offsetting on the page (72, 75). Most pages were dated at time of compilation, and many later inscribed in QM’s mature hand, identifying the correspondents. Most of the cards addressed to QM [in 1900 she was Duchess of York and in November 1901 became Princess of Wales], often jointly with KGV. The cards in album are predominantly British, mainly commercial greetings cards for Christmas and New Year; some ten cards made in Germany, Austria and Norway; a further five possibly made in France. Note that most of the cards sent to QM and KGV by their continental relations were produced in England. Overall, they reflect period taste for simpler designs, more monochromatic images with photographic elements, and display a range of embossed or impressed lettering in early twentieth century fonts. About 15 of the cards incorporate photographic portraits, some as real photographs but mostly as postcards. About 15 of the 79 cards are hand painted; about ten items appear unconnected with Christmas. Remarkable items include: QV’s last Christmas and New Year cards (1, 8); a cheque for ‘Ten Thousand Joys’ drawn on ‘The Bank of Blessings, Unlimited, Blissville’, 1907 (71); a colour photograph of the Neptune Grotto, Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, 1904 (29); an early celluloid Christmas card, 1904 (24); postcards of German war ships from Wilhelm II (5, 16). No. 1: Watercolour on card, bouquet of hellebores; inscr. in gold paint ‘All Christmas joys be thine’. From Queen Victoria; see QM’s note in pencil on the card: ‘from Grandmama 1901’. The last Christmas card: QV died 22 January 1901. Album page dated 1900. See No.8. No. 2: Gouache on card, maroon lilies, inscr. in gold paint ‘Greetings from Pretoria’; no further details. Album page dated 1900. No. 3: Monochrome wash drawing on card, Regency beauty carrying basket, bandbox and potted plant; no further details. Album page dated 1900. No. 4: Postcard, photograph of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha in Prussian Hussar uniform with shako; lettered: ‘Carl Eduard / Herzog von S. Coburg-Gotha’. From Helen, Duchess of Albany, inscr.: ‘with all loving good / wishes for Xmas 1900/ from Aunt Helen’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1900. No. 5: Postcard, photograph of German cruiser steaming down canal; lettered ‘S.M. Yacht Hohenzollern’ and lettered with publ. details lower left: ‘Dr. Trenkler Co., Leipzig 9645’. From Emperor William II to QM, inscr. in pencil: ‘for May / with best wishes for the coming year / William / 1900/01’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1900. [Hohenzollern used by William II 1893-1914.] No. 6: Christmas card, coaching inn subject by George Wright; black and white reproduction mounted on card with artist’s signature and two red horse shoes, lettered: ‘Glad Christmas Greetings’. Album page dated 1900. No further details. No. 7: Christmas card, nativity scene printed on imitation vellum, with added gold and colour, lettered: ‘May all Christmas Blessings be yours’, and (in red): ‘21’. From princess Henry of Battenberg to QM, inscr.: ‘To dear May, from her / very affect. / Aunt / Beatrice / 1900.’ No. 8: New Year card, lettered with seven lines of religious verse: ‘The Old Year dies…. with a smile’, and ‘Wishing you every Blessing /1901’. From QV, signed ‘Grandmama’[not QV’s hand]; sender identified by QM on the page. The last New Year card: QV died 22 January 1901. See No. 1. No. 9: Christmas card, four-leaf clovers and forget-me-nots, lettered in gold: ‘Good Fortune Favour You’. Folder card, embossed cover with four inner pages attached with ribbon; verses by James Russell Lowell (two lines), and Helen Marion Burnside (eight lines); at back, under logo of easel and ‘Artistic series’ palette, lettered: ‘Trade Mark / Publishers to her Majesty the Queen / Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., London Copyright / Produced at the Fine Art Works in Saxony’. Page dated 1901. No further details. No. 10: Christmas card, two cavalry officers; black and white reproduction on folder card, inscr. with nicknames of QM’s brothers, ‘Dolly’ [Adolphus of Teck] and ‘Frank’ [Francis of Teck]. From Princess Victoria of Wales, signed ‘Toria’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1901. No. 11: Hand painted Christmas card, gouache forget-me-nots, wisteria and gold ornament on cover; folder card with inner pages attached with ribbon, gouache painted carnations across inner spread; hand lettered in paint: ‘With Christmas Greetings’. For same publisher see Nos 25, 59, 65, 75. Album page dated 1901. No. 12: New Year card; hand coloured print of woman in C.18 dress stepping into sleigh. Folder card, cover and four inner pages attached with ribbon; lettered with line from Shakespeare, and eight line sentiment by A.O. Harris. Publ. ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., London Copyright / Designed at the Studios in England and printed at the Fine Art Works in Austria’. From Queen Alexandra to QM, inscr. on inner page ‘For darling May / from her devoted / loving old / “Mother dear” / Xmas 1901’. Sender identified by QM on the page. No. 13: Personal card for Christmas and New Year with photograph of Grimsthorpe Castle on cover. Folder card, cover and inner pages attached with green silk cord. Inside, black and white photograph of Elizabeth Countess of Ancaster, and Latin adage (‘Times change … friendship’) and embossed interlaced initials ‘ECA’ on greetings page. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1901. No. 14: Personal card for Christmas and New Year with photograph of snowy scene captioned ‘Ottawa from Government House’; the card signed ‘Mary Minto’. From Countess of Minto; sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1901. No. 15: Christmas and New Year card, tinted reproduction of moonlit scene on Thames by George Stanfield Walters, sailing barge and other ships, signed ‘G.S. Walters’ at lower left. Folder card and four inner pages held by blue silk ribbon, publ. C.W. Faulkner & Co., London; includes four-line sentiment. From Edward VII to QM, inscr. ‘to / dearest May from Edward R’. Album page dated 1901. Ref. Buday 1954 pp.131-32, repr. pl. 64. No. 16: Postcard, drawing by Paul Ritter of German cruiser, captioned ‘Den tyske Eskadre in Bergen (the German squadron in Bergen) – S.M.S. Kaiser Friedrich III’; signed lower right ‘Paul E. Ritter’; lettered lower left with publisher details, John Grieg, Bergen. From Emperor William II, inscr. in pencil: ‘Warmest wishes for 1902 / Willy’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1901. [Kaiser Friedrich III, flagship of German home fleet, at Bergen 18-22 May 1900.] Ref. Buday 1954 p.132, repr. pl. 64. No. 17: Blue folder card embossed with white ornament and lettered ‘With best wishes’. From Princess Beatrice to QM, inscr.: ‘to dear May / from her / very affect:ate / aunt / Beatrice / 1901’. Photograph of HMS Ophir inserted inside card, with inscrs (apparently not Pr. Beatrice hand): ‘H.M.S. “Ophir” Nov: 1. 1901’, and four-line religious sentiment, ‘A Christmas-tide of Blessing…Love’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1901. [Ophir took QM and KGV to Australia and New Zealand, summer 1901, returning Nov. 1901.] No. 18: Card with photograph of Elizabeth of Romania as a child standing on chair. From Marie of Romania to QM, inscr.: ‘A happy / Xmas to you / dear May. / Missy’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1901. See No.38. No. 19: Christmas card, watercolour roundel of moorland set in painted mount (grouse, heather, pipe, gun and cartridge bag), hand lettered: ‘A Merry Xmas’; unsigned. From Princess Beatrice to KGV, inscr.: ‘To dear Georgie / from / his very affect:ate aunt Beatrice / 1902’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1902. No. 20: Folder card with blue silk ribbon; cover embossed with blue and gold regimental crest of 7th Queen’s Own Hussars, lettered ‘Greetings’; inner pages include Christmas and New Year message; photograph of Hampton Court Palace; and page lettered ‘From the Hampton Court / Detachment VII . QO . Hussars’; inscr. ‘to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales K.G.’ [KGV]. Album page dated 1902. No. 21: Christmas folder card publ. C.W. Faulkner & Co.; imitation vellum cover with gold printed verse (‘Many a gem of friendship may you string on life’s fair chain of gold’) and purple silk ribbon. Inner page with four-line sentiment by M.S. Haycraft. From King Edward VII to QM, inscr. ‘dearest May / Edward R / 1902’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1902. No. 22: Hand painted New Year card, water colour on card signed ‘HK’ at left, lakeside view of Schloss Monrepos, and waterlilies. From Wilhelm II of Württemberg, inscr.: ‘Schloss Monrepos / b. Ludwigsburg / With many loving / wishes for a happy / New-Year / Wilhelm /1904’. Sender identified by QM on the page. See also Nos 28, 43, 44. No. 23: Private Christmas card, cover lettered: ‘hearty / Greetings / for / Christmas’; inside lettered: ‘To wish you all the best / that life can give / of Happiness and Sweetness’; and photographic view of rustic bridge, York Cottage, Sandringham. From King Edward VII to QM, inscr.: ‘Edward R …May’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1904. No. 24: Christmas folder card, with green silk ribbon; celluloid cover embossed with birds and flowers, lettered: ‘Friends / ever’ and ‘Happy days and / Prosperity’; inner pages include lettered Christmas message and a monochrome reproduction of a cottage scene. From Lady Katty Coke to QM, inscr.: ‘[To] my beloved / Princess [from] Katty’. Page dated 1904. No. 25: Hand painted card, gouache dog roses on embossed cover; folder card with four inner pages tied with pink ribbon; trefoil horseshoes and pink roses painted across inner spread; hand lettered in paint: ‘With the best / of / best Wishes’. For same publ. see Nos 11, 59, 65, 75. Album page dated 1904. No. 26: Christmas folder card with purple ribbon, flower design in raised gold outline, monochrome reproduction of watercolour signed [?E.]W. Hayes, swans and rustic bridge; inner pages include lettered Christmas message. From the Queen of Portugal to QM, signed ‘Amélie’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1904. No. 27:Postcard, archangel Michael holding a shield with decorative cyrillic lettering in Old Church Slavonic, 'Saint Michael [as an acronym] / He who is victorious'; above in same script, 'God is with us'; below a seascape with two war-ships. Chromolithograph, designed by Sergei Solomko, signature lower right. Sender not identified. No. 28: New Year card, water colour sketch of old buildings. From Wilhelm II of Württemberg to QM and KGV, inscr.: ‘With many loving wishes / to you and George for / a happy new Year / from / your affte. cousin / Wilhelm /1905’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1904-5. See also Nos 22, 43, 44. No. 29: Postcard, colour photograph of Neptune Grotto, Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, in springtime; publ. Rotophot, Berlin, ‘RPh’ logo lower right. From Emperor William II, inscr. in pencil: ‘A Merry Xmas & a happy New Year 1904-05 (William)’. Sender identified by QM on album page; page dated 1904-05. No. 30: Postcard with photograph of Christian IX, king of Denmark, set in oval frame on red card, lettered: ‘hilsen fra Danmark’ [greetings from Denmark]. From Queen Alexandra to KGV, inscr.: ‘Easter 1904 / With best wishes / for darling Georgie / for a blessed / Easter. From his / loving Mother dear’; and under the photograph of Christian IX: ‘dear Apapa’[her father; KGV’s grandfather]. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1904. No. 31: Postcard incorporating print of Vienna, lettered: ‘Tegetthof Monument / und Nordbanhnhof’ and ‘Gruss aus Wien’; and embossed four-leaf clovers, the Austrian colours, two gold horseshoes on [simulated] sealing wax; publ. A. Sockl, Vienna. From Margaret, duchess of Teck [to QM], inscr.: ‘With so / many good / wishes from / your devoted / Meg / Xmas 1904’. Page dated 1904. No. 32: Postcard of Windsor Castle lettered ‘Windsor Castle / the Round Tower’; photographic print with additional hand colouring by nine yr old KGVI, incl. flag flying his name ‘BERTIE’ on Round Tower, and painted dedication: ‘For Papa / 1904’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1904. Ref. Buday 1954 repr. pl. 131. No. 33: New Year card; chromolithograph, the numbers ‘1905’ fashioned in rose stems on silver background, lettered: ‘Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum neuen Jahre!’. Album page dated 1904-5; no further details. No. 34: New Year card; ‘1905’ in small violets, and ‘Die besten Wünsche /zum neuen Jahre!’ in border of larger violets and four-leaf clovers; embossed chromolithograph. Album page dated 1904-5; no further details. No. 35: Private card; initials ‘LMP’ on cover, seasonal message, date (‘Christmas 1904’), London address, and signature ‘Minnie’ – all engraved. Inside, a photograph of Lady Paget lying down inscribed: ‘This is how I passed the last five / months of 1904’. From Mary, Lady Paget. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1904-5. No. 36: Hand painted card; cover with naval crown, lettered ‘The Seasons’ Greetings 1904-5’; inside, watercolour signed ?‘FB’ of cruiser with three funnels. From Henry H. Campbell, inscr. ‘With humble duty and the most / Sincere good wishes from / Henry Campbell’, and: ‘H.M.S. “Highflyer”’. Album page dated 1904-5 (Campbell was captain of HMS Highflyer 1904-5). See No. 46. No. 37: Postcard with photograph of lake and Bavarian Alps, lettered lower left: ‘4314 b Königssee’. No further details; album page dated 1905. No. 38: Postcard with photograph of Maria of Romania as a small girl on a terrace holding pot. From Marie of Romania to QM, inscr.: ‘This is my / little Mignon / With loving wishes / to dear May. / Missy’. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1905. See No.18. No. 39: Postcard with photograph of Haakon VII and Maud of Norway greeted by Gustav Jensen, snow falling. Photograph by Severin Worm-Petersen (see faint lettering) and publ. H. Abel Christiania [Oslo], captioned: ‘Konge parret motages af Stiftsprovst Gustav Jensen udenfor / Vor Frelsers Kirke, Sondag den 26 Novbr. 1905’ [The royal couple is received by Professor Gustav Jensen outside church of Our Saviour, Sunday Nov. 26 1905]. No further details; album page dated 1905. No. 40: Postcard, photographic detail of head of Haakon VII inserted into drawing of medieval warrior with attributes of Norwegian royalty; signed [illegible] monogram below shield; half-tone reproduction. No further details; album page dated 1905. [Haakon r. 1905-1957.] No. 41: Postcard with photograph of three children of Victor Emanuel III of Italy. From ?Queen Elena to QM and KGV, inscr.: ‘Mafalda, Umberto, Jolanda’[Mafalda later Princess of Hesse; Umberto II of Italy; Jolanda later Countess of Bergolo]; and ‘Genova / A happy New Year / to you, dear May & to / your husband. I hope my / card will / reach you; your dear kind cards from Port Said & Bombay gave me so / much pleasure thousand thanks. Dear / Grandmama tells me that you write / to her weakly[sic] & I was so glad to hear from / you by her. We have stayed some days …’ [note continued overleaf, card stuck down]. Album page dated 1905. No. 42: Christmas postcard, a red-haired angel pressing candle-lit Christmas tree into chimney stack, signed ‘Raphael / Kirchner/ Paris’; chromolithograph. No further details; album page dated 1906. No. 43: Hand painted card, watercolour of pine trees and garden seat; possibly by same artist as No.43. From Charlotte of Württemberg [?to QM], inscr. with message in German and dated 1906. Sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1906. See also Nos 22, 28, 44. No. 44: Hand painted card, watercolour on blue card, lakeside view of Schloss Monrepos, inscr. lower left: ‘Monrepos’. From Wilhelm II of Württemberg, sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1906. See also Nos 22, 28, 43. No. 45: Hand coloured print, dachshund puppy with mistletoe in mouth, front paws on ledge with holly; [German] artist signature illegible, lower right. Album page dated 1906. No further details. No. 46: New Year folder card, cover with RN seal (crown, fouled anchor and rope surround) and blue silk ribbon [July 2018: ribbon perished]; reproduction of watercolour of cruiser HMS Terrible on inner pages. From Commander Henry Campbell [to KGV?], inscr.: ‘With Humble duty and Most Sincere Good /wishes for a Happy Tour, and a Happy / Welcome Home from the children in the / New Year. / from Your Royal Highness’s Most / devoted and obedient / Servant/ Henry Campbell’. Page dated 1906. For Campbell see also No. 36. No. 47: Christmas and new year folder card with pink silk ribbon [perished]; imitation vellum cover with embossed Art Nouveau vase with hand painted irises, and b&w repr. of lakeside scene, lettered ‘Fair days that know / not any change’; three verse sentiment by A.L. Salmon on inner pages. Publ. ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. London Paris Berlin New York’. From KGVI to QM, inscr.: ‘For dear Mama/1905/Bertie’; sender identified by QM on the page. No. 48: Christmas folder card with blue silk ribbon; imitation vellum cover with embossed swallows and hand painted blue flowers, and photograph of birch trees by water, lettered: ‘Fair days to you’; possibly publ. Raphael Tuck & Sons. From KEVIII to QM, inscr.: ‘For dear Mama, 1905 / David’; sender identified by QM on the page. No. 49: Christmas card with five-line verse (‘Hark: the Christmas … Christmas-time’) in embossed blackletter script on cover; inscr. ‘Prince Edward’ in QM’s hand. Folder card with eight trimmed photographs on inner pages – child’s work. Clearly identifiable figures include: KEVIII (at least two photos), Prince John (two photos), Princess Mary, QM. Album page dated 1906: by this date all QM’s six children born. No. 50: Christmas folder card with blue silk ribbon; imitation vellum cover with hand painted sprig of heather, and reproduction of Scottish scene with deer signed ‘Walter Boodle’; lettered with two lines by Robert Burns (‘And here’s … O’er them’) and four line sentiment by M. Maddick, inner pages. The publisher of this Scottish-themed card possibly Raphael Tuck & Sons. From KEVIII to KGV, inscr.: ‘For dear Papa. 1905 / David’; sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1906. No. 51: New Year card, three puppies playing with gentleman’s top hat, cane and glove. Embossed chromolithograph folder card with two line sentiment by Isa. J. Postgate; uninscribed. Page dated 1906. No. 52: Christmas folder card with green silk ribbon; cover image: sepia print of waterside scene by A.E. Bailey (birch trees, swans on water) captioned ‘On the Thames’; publisher’s name lower left: ‘Dobbs Kidd & Co’. From Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester, signed ‘Harry’; sender identified by QM on the page; page dated 1906. No. 53: Christmas folder card with red silk ribbon, embossed cover with: poppies, silk voile insert, lettered Greetings’ in cut-out and glittered lettering; publisher’s details on back: ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., London, Paris, Berlin New York / Designed at the studios in England and printed at the Fine Art Works in Bavaria’. Eight-line sentiment by Helen Marion Burnside on inner page. From Princess Mary, signed ‘Your loving Mary’. Page dated 1906. Fragile item. No. 54: Christmas folder card with blue silk ribbon, Tuck “Oilette” postcard of ship in moonlight on cover (see Tuck’s trademark easel, palette, and brushes lower left on postcard, and “Oilette” blind stamp on mount), lettered: ‘All happiness betide’. Publ. ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., London, Paris, Berlin New York’. From KGVI to KGV, inscr.: ‘For dear Papa / 1905 / Bertie’; sender identified by QM on the page. No. 55: Christmas card, colour reproduction, moonlit river [Thames] with sailing barges, signed [illegible] lower left; folder card pasted onto panel mount lettered ‘Happy days /roll onward’; probably publ. Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Eight-line sentiment by Helen Marion Burnside on inner page. From Princess Mary, prob. to KGV, signed ‘Your darling Mary’. Page dated 1905-6. No. 56: Postcard with photograph of QM and Prince John in christening robes. Publ. Rotary Photo EC, captioned: ‘The Princess of Wales / and her youngest son, John Charles Francis’. Subject identified by QM on the page; page dated 1905-6. No. 57: Postcard with photograph of Queen Alexandra holding Japanese Chin dog, on terrace. Photographer/ publisher’s stamp lower right: ‘W.& D. Downey / 61 Ebury St/ London SW/ Copyright’; signed by QA lower right: ‘Motherdear / & little /Marvel’. Subject identified by QM on the page; page dated 1905-6. No. 58: New Year folder card with embossed lettering: ‘Ma dernière pensée / le 31 Decembre / 11.59 p.m. / à Vous’; unsigned; inscr. by QM: ‘from little Mary / 1906’ [?Princess Mary]. Page dated 1906-7. No. 59: Hand painted greetings card, gouache irises on cover and purple ribbon tie; lily of the valley and violets painted on inner page spread, hand lettered in paint: ‘With / the best of best / wishes’. For same publ. see Nos 11, 25, 65, 75. Album page dated 1906-7. No. 60: Christmas folder card with pink silk ribbon, engraving of young woman in Georgian dress cradling cat, lettered beneath: ‘Fair days to you’; possibly publ. Raphael Tuck & Sons (see No. 48). From King and Queen of Spain to QM, inscr.: ‘For dear May / Ena & Alfonso’. Senders identified by QM on the page; page dated 1906-7. No. 61: New Year postcard with photograph of Prince Christian of Schleswig Hollstein, inscr.: ‘To / dear Georgie and May / wishing you both / a very happy New / Year / from / Uncle Christian / Cumberland Lodge / Dec. 29 1907’. Sender identified by QM on the page. No. 62: Postcard with photograph of Swedish baby royals prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (b.1906), and Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland (b.1907); card lettered: ‘Hertigarna af Vasterbotten / und Uppland[dukes of Västerbotten and Uppland]’. The sender, Princess Margareta of Sweden (née Princess Margaret of Connaught), identified by QM on the page. No. 63: Postcard, photograph of trees in snow publ. H. Abel, Christiania (see stamp), captioned ‘Birk’ (birch). No further details. No. 64: Chromolithograph panel card, yellow California poppies, no lettering. From Grand Duchess Serge of Russia to QM and KGV, inscr.: ‘To darling / May & Georgie / all / hearty / Xmas / & new years / wishes / from Ella 1907-1908’. Sender identified by QM on the page. No. 65: Christmas folder card; hand painted blossom on cover, with pink ribbon tie; on inner pages, hand painted red roses and hand lettered in paint: ‘A very Happy / Christmas / With / the best of / best wishes’. For same publ. see Nos 11, 25, 59, 75. No further details. No. 66: Christmas folder card with yellow silk ribbon; cover: chromolithograph of daffodils, lettered ‘Fair Days / and / Fortunate’. Inner pages incl. four-line sentiment by Clifton Bingham, and bl. & white reproduction of wintry scene (house, trees, bridge, fence) by unidentified artist, see monogram lower right. From Amélie Queen of Portugal to QM, inscr.: ‘dear May / Amélie’. Sender identified by QM on the page. No. 67: Christmas folder card with cream silk ribbon; cover lettered ‘Goodwill’ below black and white reproduction of nativity scene, Virgin and Child by manger, signed ‘HMB’. Inner pages include anon. eight-line sentiment. From Maud Queen of Norway to QM, inscr. on reverse: ‘For / dearest May / with every blessing / for a happy /Xmas from / Maud 1907’. Page dated 1907. No. 68: Card with four pasted-in photographs of house and garden. From Lady Mary Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis to KGV and QM, inscr.: ‘With my humble duty and best wishes / to both Your Royal Highnesses for / Christmas and the New Year / Mary Forbes Trefusis / Dec. 23. 1907 / Porthgwidden – Devoran – Cornwall / The house / The terrace / The river Fal (from the house) / Entrance to Falmouth harbour / (from the garden)’. Page dated 1907. No. 69: Private Christmas folder card, photograph by Weston & Sons of two small girls, lettered: ‘A Portrait by Weston & Sons 27 Sloane Street S.W.’. Inscr. [by ?Bridget Louisa, Hon. Lady Keppel to QM]: ‘Anne Keppel & Baby’. Anne Keppel (1901-51) da. of Sir Derek Keppel and Hon. Lady Keppel, was QM’s goddaughter [her m. names: Broadmead and Lockhart-Jervis]; ‘Baby’ was the Keppels’ youngest daughter Victoria Winifred Keppel (1905-76, d. unmarried). No. 70: New Year folder card with blue silk ribbon; cover with hand coloured print of lily of the valley and forget-me-not flowers, lettered ‘Remembrance’; and publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons’ logo of palette paint brushes and easel, lower left. Inner pages incl. six-line sentiment by Helen Marion Burnside. From Princess Mary [to QM], signed ‘Mary. 1907’. Page dated 1907. No. 71: Greetings card in form of cheque, ‘Ten Thousand Joys’ drawn on ‘Bank of Blessings, Unlimited, Incorporated with the Bank of Love’. Publ. details at left: ‘Angus Thomas Copyright London’. Christmas greetings from Roger Victor Hunt to QM, inscr.: ‘Dec. 24th 1907 / H.R.H. The Princess of Wales / Roger. Victor. Hunt’; no further details on Hunt. Page dated 1907. Ref. Buday 1954, p.166, repr. pl.139. No. 72: Christmas card, Christmas Market scene at night signed ‘L. [?]Schispler’; colour postcard lettered: ‘Fröhliche Weihnachten’[Merry Christmas]. Album page dated 1908; no further details. No. 73: Card enclosing photograph of young woman; from Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, inscr.: ‘With fondest Xmas / & best of New Years / wishes 1908 / from yr. ever loving / little old [?]Beat / Cannes Decr: 1907’. Sender identified by QM on the card. Album page dated 1908. No. 74: Christmas card; chromolithograph on cover, robin perched on post and chain fence, lettered: ‘The Chain of Friendship … days that are’; inside, eight-line sentiment about the Christmas robin. Album page dated 1908; no further details. No. 75: Hand painted greetings card, gouache on card panel, yellow and brown iris flags, flowering prunus, rushes by water; hand lettered: ‘With Every Good Wish’. For same publ. see Nos 11, 25, 59, 65. Album page dated 1907; no further details. No. 76: Topographical print, etched view of Berlin in decorative border incorporating city’s coat of arms (black bear on shield); lettered: ‘Panorama von Berlin vom Dom aus’[Panorama of Berlin from the cathedral]; and lower left: ‘H. Mues, Berlin. W.8’ Album page dated 1908; no further details. No. 77: New Year folder card with blue silk ribbon; cover with hand painted forget-me-not flowers, and embossed clock pointing at few minutes to twelve, lettered: ‘’Tis now the time to wish you cheer’. Publisher ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.’: see blind stamp on back page. Inner pages incl. sentiment by Helen Marion Burnside set to music by H.A.C. Salmond. From Princess Mary, signed ‘your loving Mary’. Sender identified by QM on the page; album page dated 1908. No. 78: Photogravure of shipping straits, cattle grazing in foreground, titled ‘Svendborg Sund’ [Svendborg Sound, Denmark], publ. ‘Alex Vincent’s Kunstforlag’, Danish art publisher. Album page dated 1908; no further details. No. 79: Postcard, photograph of Queen Maud of Norway and her son Prince Olav on skis, lettered: ‘1346 / Dronning Maud og Kronprins Olav paa ski.’. See BM 1947,1011.2(71) for photograph publ. H. Abel of Olav on skis, apparently taken on same day. Subjects identified by QM on the page; album page dated 1908.
Producer name: Published by: Dr Trenkler Co (1947,10.11.5.5); Print made by: Paul Ritter I (1947,1011.5.16); Published by: John Grieg (1947,10.11.5.16); After: Sergei Solomko (1947,1011.5.27); After: George Stanfield Walters (1947,1011.5.15); Photographed by: Weston (1947,1011.5.69); Photographed by: W & D Downey (1947,1011.5.57); Published by: C. W. Faulkner & Co (1947,1011.5.15 and 1947,1011.5.21); Published by: Rotary Photo (1947,1011.5.56); Published by: Raphael Tuck & Sons (1947,1011.5.9, 1947,1011.5.12, 1947,1011.5.47, 1947,1011.5.48, 1947,1011.5.50, 1947,1011.5.53 to 55, 1947,1011.5.60, 1947,1011.5.70 and 1947,1011.5.77)
School/style: German; Norwegian; Swiss; Russian; British
Production date: 1900 (c.)
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Technique
Dimensions: Height: 305 millimetres; Width: 290 millimetres; Depth: 50 millimetres
Curator's comments: Names have been identified by QM’s notes on the album page, and signatures. For a number of cards, stuck down and lacking QM’s notes, the identities remain unknown. Transcription of the lettering on 1947,1011.5.27 was kindly provided by Roma Chumak-Horbatsch (17 August 2018) References to Buday, are to George Buday, The History of the Christmas Card, London, 1954.
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Queen Victoria (sender: 1947,1011.5.1 and 1947,1011.5.8); Associated with: Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (sender: 1947,1011.5.15, 1947,1011.5.21 and 1947,1011.5.23); Associated with: Alexandra, Queen of Edward VII (sender: 1947,1011.5.12, 1947,1011.5.30 and 1947,1011.5.57); Portrait of: Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom, Duke of Windsor (portrait, 1947,1011.5.49 and sender, 1947,1011.5.48 and 1947,1011.5.50); Associated with: George VI, King of the United Kingdom (sender: 1947,1011.5.32, 1947,1011.5.47 and 1947,1011.5.54); Associated with: Princess Beatrice (sender: 1947,1011.5.7, 1947,1011.5.17 and 1947,1011.5.19); Associated with: Helen, Duchess of Albany (sender: 1947,1011.5.4); Associated with: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (sender: 1947,1011.5.52); Portrait of: Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood (portrait, 1947,1011.5.49 and sender, 1947,1011.5.53, 1947,1011.5.55, 1947,1011.5.58(?), 1947,1011.5.70 and 1947,1011.5.77); Portrait of: Princess Maud of Wales (portrait, 1947,1011.5.39 and 1947,1011.5.79; sender, 1947,1011.5.67 and 1947,1011.5.79); Associated with: Princess Victoria of Wales (sender: 1947,1011.5.10); Associated with: Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (sender: 1947,1011.5.5, 1947,1011.5.16 and 1947,1011.5.29); Associated with: Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (sender: 1947,1011.5.60); Associated with: Amélie of Orléans, Queen of Carlos I of Portugal (sender: 1947,1011.5.26 and 1947,1011.5.66); Associated with: Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Queen of Württemberg (sender: 1947,1011.5.43); Portrait of: Princess Charlotte of Prussia, later Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen (sender with portrait, 1947,1011.5.73); Associated with: Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (sender with portrait, 1947,1011.5.61); Associated with: Elena, Queen of Italy (sender: 1947,1011.5.41); Associated with: Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (sender: 1947,1011.5.64); Associated with: Victoria Eugénie, Queen of Spain (sender: 1947,1011.5.60); Associated with: Margaret, Marchioness of Cambridge (sender: 1947,1011.5.31); Associated with: Princess Margaret (sender: 1947,1011.5.62); Associated with: Marie, Queen of Ferdinand of Romania (sender: 1947,1011.5.18 and 1947,1011.5.38); Associated with: Wilhelm II, King of Württemberg (sender: 1947,1011.5.22, 1947,1011.5.28 and 1947,1011.5.44); Associated with: Evelyn Elizabeth, Countess of Ancaster (sender: 1947,1011.5.13); Associated with: Henry H Campbell (sender: 1947,1011.5.36 and 1947,1011.5.46); Associated with: Coke, Katherine (sender: 1947,1011.5.24); Associated with: Lady Mary Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (sender: 1947,1011.5.68); Associated with: Roger Victor Hunt (sender: 1947,1011.5.71); Associated with: Hon. Lady Bridget Louisa Keppel (sender: 1947,1011.5.69); Associated with: Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto (sender: 1947,1011.5.14); Associated with: Lady Mary Paget (sender: 1947,1011.5.35); Portrait of: Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1947,1011.5.4); Portrait of: Elisabetta of Romania, Queen of Greece (1947,1011.5.18); Portrait of: Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1947,1011.5.62); Portrait of: Haakon VII, King of Norway (1947,1011.5.39 and 1947,1011.5.40); Portrait of: Gustav Jensen (1947,1011.5.39); Portrait of: Prince John (1947,1011.5.49 and 1947,1011.5.56); Portrait of: Princess Jolanda, Countess of Bergolo (1947,1011.5.41); Portrait of: Anne Keppel (1947,1011.5.69); Portrait of: Victoria Winifred Keppel (1947,1011.5.69 (as a baby)); Portrait of: Mafalda, Princess of Hesse (1947,1011.5.41); Portrait of: Maria, Queen of Yugoslavia (1947,1011.5.38); Portrait of: Mary, Queen of George V (1947,1011.5.49 and 1947,1011.5.56); Portrait of: Olaf V, King of Norway (1947,1011.5.79); Portrait of: Sigvard, Duke of Uppland (1947,1011.5.62); Portrait of: Umberto II, King of Italy (1947,1011.5.41); Associated with: Robert Burns (1947,1011.5.50 (quotation from)); Associated with: Helen Marion Burnside (1947,1011.5.9 (quotation from)); Associated with: James Russell Lowell (1947,1011.5.9 (quotation from)); Associated with: William Shakespeare (1947,1011.5.12 (quotation from))
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1947
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1947,1011.5.1-79

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