{"id":261635,"date":"2019-11-25T21:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T19:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=261635"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T19:02:51","slug":"worlds-first-printed-christmas-card-goes-on-display-at-dickens-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/worlds-first-printed-christmas-card-goes-on-display-at-dickens-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s first printed Christmas card goes on display at Dickens museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The world\u2019s first printed Christmas card, an artwork created in 1843 that went on to spawn a global industry, has gone on show at the\u00a0Charles Dickens\u00a0Museum in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Designed by Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley, in the same year that Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol was published, the hand-coloured card shows a family gathered around a table enjoying a glass of wine with a message: \u201cA merry\u00a0Christmas and a happy new year to you.<\/p>\n<p>It was sent by a son to his parents. Of the 1,000 originally printed, 21 survived and one has been lent to the museum by a book dealer in San Francisco, The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/nov\/20\/worlds-first-printed-christmas-card-goes-on-display-at-dickens-museum\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, Beautiful Books: Dickens and the Business of Christmas, runs at the novelist\u2019s former\u00a0London\u00a0home, now a museum, until 19 April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Neil Hall\/EPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first printed Christmas card, an artwork created in 1843 that went on to spawn a global industry, has gone on show at the\u00a0Charles Dickens\u00a0Museum in London. Designed by Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley, in the same year that Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol was published, the hand-coloured card shows a family&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4732,21684,17353,2061],"class_list":["post-261635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-en","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-card","tag-london","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}