Victorian Santa Christmas Card with Toys & Holly Wreath

The icy holly wreath that frames this composition serves as the stage for a rosy-cheeked Victorian St. Nick sporting a two-toned black-and-red cap and the kind of wide, glassy smile that suggests he absolutely knows what you did last Christmas. Emerging like a department store Santa who just discovered absinthe, his disembodied floating head presides over a chaotic tribute altar of gifts below: a toy drum with red-and-yellow stripes, what appears to be a small doll, wrapped presents, a book, grapes, and some sort of gourd or jug, all accompanied by golden bells dripping with icicles in the upper corners. The script at the bottom reads 'A Merry Christmas' in that elegant cursive that was Victorian shorthand for 'we have collectively agreed not to acknowledge how unnerving this man's face is.'