Thursday, November 6, 2008

"A Visit From Saint Nicholas," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Dec. 1857

Note how Saint Nick in the leading illustration has something of a rustic "gnomish" quality, as compared to later, red-suited incarnations of the fat man.

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