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Summary

Description

A Stocking Full, by Thomas Nast (1840–1902). A matching print for H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 10, page 80, item 1. Santa Claus is suspended in a large stocking beside a bed and holds a smoking pipe. The cap, face, stocking folds, bedpost, pipe, surrounding hatching and Th. Nast signature correspond to the album illustration.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue titles this work A Stocking Full (published in “Harper's Weekly,” January 4, 1879), dates it originally published 1879, and describes the medium as relief print and electrotype. This museum witness does not carry the A STOCKING FULL caption printed beneath the album cutting. The matching drawing is established; the particular caption state, physical impression and source of the scrapbook cutting are not equated. The Harper's Weekly issue itself has not been directly reviewed here; no printed page number is asserted. The date of an adjacent scrapbook article is not used to date this print.

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints, accession 33.35.85, object 822567. Credit line: Gift of Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast, 1933.

• Museum catalogue.
• Official object metadata.
• Full original JPEG, DP884632.

Thank you to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for preserving this print and freely providing the original-resolution image.

File and processing

RGB PNG, 1770 × 1840 pixels. Lossless pixel crop (650, 650)–(2420, 2490), right/bottom exclusive, from the original 3114 × 3298 JPEG. The full illustration, pipe smoke, bedpost, stocking foot and artist's signature are retained. Broad blank sheet margins are excluded. Source sheet and print already aligned; no rotation or resampling. Intentionally oblique drawn hatching and the signature are not treated as scan skew. Natural paper colour and printing irregularities retained; no enlargement, colourization, tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Original JPEG unchanged, SHA-256 2932ac4efeeac009fdd7b86bf651381eadb4150303cbf51156152aecf6af1ca4.

Rights

The museum's current official object record marks this image Public Domain (isPublicDomain: true), verified 4 November 2026. Museum credit and donor credit are retained above. Changes: cropping and lossless PNG encoding of the decoded source pixels.