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A Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
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greetings card
Clulow, David; Soest, Konrad von
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Surrey, Bletchingley
1990s
card; photographic paper
overall (mount): 210 mm x 148 mm; photographic image: 164 mm x 126 mm

Christmas greetings card, home-made by an optician, featuring a colour photograph pasted onto a piece of folded card, the image deriving from an early 15th c. mural found behind the High Altar in the parish church of Niederwildungen in the princedom of Waldeck in Germany, depicting an Apostle (sometimes said to be St Luke) holding a book and a pair of nose spectacles. Signed inside by Mr David Clulow.


1998.439

Gift of Mr David Clulow



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