Counting down 12 Days til Christmas! If you’re feeling stressed out by this time of year, relax and remember that the most important thing is to be present with the ones you love.
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Day 11
A & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?

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Day 10
Will you be eating figgy pudding this Christmas? A tradition dating back to C16th, when fig trees became commonplace in English gardens. This hand-coloured by Johann Muller (or John Miller) dates from 1777.

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Christmas illustrations every day! Here is my illustrations from day1 to day 6

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Day 6
A little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of (1738-40). With over 300 hand-coloured engravings by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth, this was the first British work of to feature hand-coloured plates.

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