Christmas Greeting, Rothenburg

1925

J. J. Lankes

Associated Names
J. J. Lankes

Artist, American, 1884 - 1960

This image depicts two Christmas card designs. Each card features a scenic illustration of a snowy house and trees with figures in the foreground, enclosed within a card format. The title "Christmas Greetings" appears in a traditional font on a banner below the scene. The top card is depicted in a monochromatic ink-drawing style, while the bottom card shows the same scene with subdued color tones, including a yellow-green background and red banner for the text. In the bottom right corner, there are printing credits indicating that the rights are reserved and the work is attributed to a commissioner marked as "DEL & SCULP JL".
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color wood engraving on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of the children of J.J. Lankes)

  • Dimensions

    block: 12.86 × 9.05 cm (5 1/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
    image (irregular): 29.21 × 19.21 cm (11 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.18 × 21.59 cm (13 1/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.3330

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lankes 1958, no. 384

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Durham, North Carolina; J. B. Lankes (the artist's son), Hampton, Virginia, 1960; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Lankes, J.J. Woodcut Record. Unpublished (College of William and Mary Special Collection), p. 8, no. 384.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite by unknown hand: 384

Wikidata ID

Q77010262

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