A very early illustration of 'Sante Claus' from The Children's Friend, William B. Gilley, 1821: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/origin-of-santa/ …pic.twitter.com/E5RY5akOUz
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A very early illustration of 'Sante Claus' from The Children's Friend, William B. Gilley, 1821: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/origin-of-santa/ …pic.twitter.com/E5RY5akOUz
Robert Weir's painting of St Nicholas, c. 1837: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/st-nicholas-27465 … For more on this painting and the Knickerbocker interest in reinventing St Nicholas/Santa Claus, see https://www.jstor.org/stable/3050448?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …pic.twitter.com/VrjzqMnbTA
St Nicholas/Santa Claus before Thomas Nast—illustrations to Moore's 'Night Before Christmas' by Louis Prang, 1864: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Christmas/prang.htm …pic.twitter.com/3ncaTOsFlP
Thomas Nast's illustrations for Clement Clarke Moore's 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas', 1869: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Christmas/nast.htm …pic.twitter.com/sEo6hjUz4N
Thomas Nast's Santa Claus and his Works, c.1869: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/origin-of-santa/ …pic.twitter.com/m1fEqQFpi9
The American Santa Claus as a Christmas gift-giver was first noted in England in 1879—19th-century folklorists initially puzzled by him, not knowing who he was, with one guessing it was ‘Santa Cruz, the Holy Cross’ which brought the presents: http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/history.htm …pic.twitter.com/GHj7DKbYsi
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By the late 19th/early 20th century, the English Father Christmas and the American Santa Claus had become interchangeable & largely indistinguishable...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/942154297172688896 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Old Father Christmas riding on a Yule goat, 1836, & Father Christmas as gift-giver on an English postcard of 1919: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Christmas_riding_a_goat,_by_Robert_Seymour,_1836.jpg … & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Father_Christmas,_Tuck_Photo_Oilette_postcard_1919,_front.jpg …pic.twitter.com/wiK0W71uVo
By the early twentieth century, the American Santa Claus had also spread to Japan, as seen in this image of a modern-looking Santa Claus from 1914: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1914_Santa_Claus.jpg …pic.twitter.com/WUoCQVOXdD
Have you seen Tolkien book Letters to Santa ,brilliant book with great drawings from the great man himselfpic.twitter.com/iY0phg3FbR
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