Peace On Earth

by Lianne Schneider

Title

Peace On Earth

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

Peace on Earth
'Christmas card' blank inside. Available singly or in boxes of 10 or 25.

I am so grateful to the hosts of each of the groups below who featured this image:
WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU - GRETA
3 A DAY GREETING CARDS - DARREN
VISUAL VOICE - ANNIE
SIGNATURE STYLE ART - SHARON
ART WITH FLAIR - WILLIAM
BEAUTY CAPTURED - ELLA
ART PROMOTION AND MARKETING - NICLA
DAILY DOSE OF WISDOM - ETI
COLORS BLUE TURQUOISE...COLETTE
FAA FEATURED IMAGES - ROBERT
SELECTED DIGITAL ART - TAIKAN
MEMORIES AND NOSTALGIA - SANDRA
ALL NATURAL SCENIC LANDSCAPES - BOB AND NADINE

From Wikipedia:
The first Christmas cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley in London on the 1st of May 1843. The central picture showed three generations of a family raising a toast to the card's recipient: on either side were scenes of charity, with food and clothing being given to the poor. Allegedly the image of the family drinking wine together proved controversial, but the idea was shrewd: Cole had helped introduce the Penny Post three years earlier. Two batches totaling 2,050 cards were printed and sold that year for a shilling each.

Early English cards rarely showed winter or religious themes, instead favoring flowers, fairies and other fanciful designs that reminded the recipient of the approach of spring. Humorous and sentimental images of children and animals were popular, as were increasingly elaborate shapes, decorations and materials. In 1875 At Christmas 1873, a firm, Prang and Mayer, producing lithographs began creating greeting cards for the popular market in England and began selling the Christmas card in America in 1874, thus became the first printer to offer cards in America. Therefore the owner, Louis Prang, is sometimes called the "father of the American Christmas card." The popularity of his cards led to cheap imitations that eventually drove him from the market. The advent of the postcard spelled the end for elaborate Victorian-style cards, but by the 1920s, cards with envelopes had returned. The extensive Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection from the Manchester Metropolitan University gathers 32,000 Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards, printed by the major publishers of the day, including Britain's first commercially-produced Christmas card.

Composite from stock background by Olga Bor (originally on DeviantArt) and original images, hand-painted digitally and then textured using a purchased texture from Flypaper textures.

Copyright Lianne Schneider 2013

All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or painting resulting from my changes. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used with in accordance with international copyright laws.

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