Off to Church - Christmas Eve Services

by Lianne Schneider

Title

Off to Church - Christmas Eve Services

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

The matching lithograph to "Off to Grandmas" that I posted earlier in the week.
The original image of Christmas Eve is listed in the Library of Congress as belonging in the public domain. I have created this digital painting based on a small copy of the original. This is a very popular vintage Christmas card readily available online, occasionally with some additional buildings that do not appear in the original. Bauer also painted a matching image called Christmas Morn which I have also painted and posted earlier. Vintage winter scenes were also among the most popular of the Currier and Ives lithographs printed in New York at around the same time.

CAPTION: Christmas Eve, Painting by W. C. Bauer.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: These Christmas landscapes were standard fare for the large lithographic printers of the era and this one was especially well printed and preserved.

ARTIST: W. C. Bauer (1862-1904) was a resident of New Jersey. I could find almost nothing else about him - which is really too bad considering that he was obviously a fine artist.

ORIGINAL MEDIA: Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, printed the original lithograph on which this new print is based.

Raphael Tuck & Sons

Raphael Tuck & Sons, publishers from the mid 1800's into the early 20th Century. Raphael Tuck & Sons were proudly known to be the Publishers to Her Majesties the King and Queen, with printing houses in London, Paris and New York.

They began in London, England in 1866, selling pictures and frames. Raphael Tuck was joined by his three sons in 1871 and published their first Christmas greeting card.

In 1893 they were granted a Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria.

Adolph Tuck, one of the sons, produced their first picture postcard in 1894 of Mt. Snowden in Wales, which was sold to tourists visiting the site.

Little else can be found about the artist himself - if anyone has further information, I'd love to have it.

My humble and overwhelming gratitude to the following groups for featuring this:
ART FROM THE PAST - JOUKO
FAA GALLERY HOME FOR ALL WHO CREATE - CAROLE
ROCK THE SALES - JOETTA
ARTISTIC EXPRESSION - JOETTA
IMPRESSIONISM - JOSEPH
DAILY DOSE OF WISDOM - ETI
TODAYS BEST ART - DAVID
CARDS FOR ALL OCCASIONS - JORDAN
A LITTLE OF THIS AND A LITTLE OF THAT - TODD AND CANDICE
ART PROMOTION AND MARKETING - NICLA
COLLECTORS TREASURES - KRISTA
EXCELLENT SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS - JOE
FAA FEATURED IMAGES - ROBERT
VISUAL VOICE - ANNIE
MOTIVATION MEDITATION INSPIRATION - BARBARA
HARMONY AND HAPPINESS - ERNESTINE
RAISED COUNTRY RAISED RIGHT - JOHN
DIGITAL REALISM - ANNE
BOOK COVERS 1 PER DAY - JO ANN
THOUSANDS GALLERY - PAUL
COUNTRY CHURCHES - CHARLES
M O U S E - BARBARA
THE WOW GALLERY - JILL
ARTISTS BEST FIVE ARTWORKS - TINA
PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXTURES MAKE FINE ART - DARREN
MEMORIES AND NOSTALGIA - SANDRA
COMFORTABLE ART - JIM
ARTISTS NEWS - NADINE AND BOB
GREAT ART FOR COMMENTS AND VOTES - FAYE
ARTISTS OF WESTERN AND UPSTATE NEW YORK - ROSE


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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December 15th, 2013

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