Who's this handsome fellow?! A lithograph after a drawing by James Clark Ross (1800-62) this snowy arctic fox appears in Ross's 'A voyage of discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions, during the years 1839-43' (London: 1847).

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but is not fooled by this type of trickery. From St. Nicholas, Dec. 1887, Manning Children’s Collection

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And on Christmas Eve true vows are plighted / Under the ’. From ‘Young England’, 1890, John Manning Collection.

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In this series of cards from ca. 1870 publisher Marcus & Ward combined a Christmas greeting with supposed insights into the Irish temperament. Caricatures but colourful

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