“Christmas Gallery”. Postcard & Greeting Card Museum.
John Callcott Horsley
Standard Name: Horsley, John Callcott
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox
(with whom her relationship was very close), This is the Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), not to be confused with the... |
Timeline
Late 1843: Sir Henry Cole, tired of writing out Christmas...
Building item
Late 1843
Sir Henry Cole
, tired of writing out Christmas greetings for all his friends, commissioned John Callcott Horsley
to design the first pictorial Christmas card.
May 1885: John Callcott Horsley, Rector of the Royal...
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May 1885
John Callcott Horsley
, Rector of the Royal Academy
, first stated his objection to the use of nude female models in a letter to The Times which he signed a British Matron.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
60-61
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