Beautiful full-color drawing depicting the famous line from The Night Before Christmas of, “The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there.”
The illustrator of this vintage Christmas image was not identified. It was used to illustrate Clement C. Moore’s (1779-1863) famous poem Night Before Christmas published circa 1870.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
