Father Christmas
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Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Although now known as a Christmas gift-bringer, and typically considered to be synonymous with Santa Claus, he wa
1848 depiction of Father Christmas crowned with a holly wreath, holding a staff and a wassail bowl and carrying the Yule log
Father Christmas, as illustrated in Josiah King's two pamphlets of 1658 (The Examination and Tryall of Old Father Christmas) during the Puritan ban on Christmas, and 1678 when it has been restored as a holy day
A Merry England vision of Old Christmas 1836
Christmas with his children 1836
Ghost of Christmas Present
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The Ghost of Christmas Present is a fictional character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Ghost is one of three spirits that appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chanc
The Ghost of Christmas Present and Ebenezer Scrooge - illustration by John Leech (1843).
Engraving of Old Christmas 1842 - Illustrated London News (December 1842).
The Second of the Spirits - Sol Eytinge Jr. (1869).
"Scrooge encounters Ignorance and Want", illustration (1843) John Leech.