St. Nicholas filling a stocking in a child's bedroom

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St. Nicholas filling a stocking in a child's bedroom
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St. Nicholas filling a stocking in a child's bedroom

Date1862
Illustration CitationStudy for an illustration for A Visit from Saint Nicholas / Illustrated from drawings by F.O.C. Darley (New York: James G. Gregory, 1862)
MediumWatercolor, ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensionscomposition: 12 7/16 × 9 1/8 in. (31.6 × 23.2 cm)
sheet: 13 5/16 × 10 1/8 in. (33.8 × 25.7 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1983
Object number1983-165
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Label TextThis drawing appears to have been the basis for a more-simplified version of F. O. C. Darely's illustration in a 1862 edition of Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nicholas." In a style that other illustrators would follow, Darley portrays St. Nicholas as a portly gray-haired man, not the diminutive character of Moore's poem. Here he taps his nose in the traditional gesture of secrecy.
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