item details
NameChristmas card, 'A Peaceful Christmas'
ProductionA.D. Willis Ltd.; publisher; circa 1900s; Whanganui
Kennett Watkins; artist; 1900s
Kennett Watkins; artist; 1900s
ClassificationChristmas cards
Materialspaper
Techniqueschromolithography
DimensionsOverall: 146mm (width), 106mm (height)
Registration NumberGH004846
Credit linePurchased 1995
Overview
The illustration featured on this Christmas card is initialled ‘K.W.’ and is probably by Kennet Watkins, whose work appears on other cards published by A. D. Willis.
A.D. Willis
This card was produced by A.D. Willis, a Wanganui printing firm run by printer Archibald Duddington Willis. Willis set up the Wanganui herald newspaper with politician John Ballance, a future premier of New Zealand. A.D Willis later began bookbinding, publishing, and commercial printing, and published several series of Christmas and greetings cards featuring local elements and iconography.