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以下翻譯自：http://didyouknow.org/christmas/
he first Christmas cards
Though wood engravers produced prints with religious themes in the European Middle Ages, the first commercial Christmas and New Year’s card was designed in London, England in 1843.
John Callcott Horsley (1817 – 1903), a British narrative painter and a Royal Academician, designed the first Christmas and New Year’s card at the suggestion and request of his friend Sir Henry Cole, who was the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Horsley designed the first Christmas card in 1840, but it went on sale only in 1843, when one thousand cards were offered for 1s each.
The card was not received without controversy, for it showed a family raising their glasses to toast Christmas. Puritans immediately denounced it. The idea was a hit with others. Christmas card became very popular, and other artists quickly followed Horsley’s concept. A particularly popular card was designed by English artist William Egley in 1849.
The first Christmas cards were printed in 1843 in lithography by Jobbins of Warwick Court, Holborn, London, and hand-coloured by an artist named Mason. They were lithographed on stiff cardboard, with the greeting, “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.” It also states that is was “Published at Summerly’s Home Treasury Office, 12 Old Bond Street, London.
第一張聖誕卡
雖然木雕師在歐洲中古世紀以宗教主題製作印刷品，第一張商業性質的聖誕和新年卡是在1843年的倫敦設計出來。
爵士- 第一位維多利亞與亞伯特博物館總監的建議和要求，設計了第一張聖誕和新年卡，Horsley在1840年設計了第一張聖誕卡，但在1843年，每款印制1000張時才開始銷售。
由於卡片上呈現家庭舉杯慶祝聖誕節，當時收到卡片時皆備受爭議。清教徒立刻譴責。而這個想法對其他人來說則是一個風潮。聖誕卡變得非常流行，其他藝術家也跟進Horsley的概念。當時最受歡迎的卡片是1849年英國藝術家William Egley設計的卡片。
第一張被印出的聖誕卡是在1843年，由Jobbins在倫敦以平版印刷印出，由藝術家Mason手繪顏色，印製在厚紙板上，並且寫上” 祝你有個快樂的聖誕以及新年”。同時也註明了其在倫敦的發行地址。