The first Christmas card was designed in 1843. It was a simple illustration with a seasonal greeting. The first cards were expensive, but by the late Victorian period Christmas cards became more ...

In 1843 Henry Cole commissioned an artist to design a card for Christmas. The illustration showed a ... by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as ...

In 1843, he asked an artist friend, John Callcott Horsley, to create a festive illustration with ... images of mortality on Victorian Christmas cards may have been intended to move the recipient ...