# Thomas Nast's Christmas drawings for the human race

Author: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Art

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72546

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Thomas+Nast%27s+Christmas+drawings+for+the+human+race+Nast&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

This volume of Mr. Nast’s “Christmas Drawings” is the first collection of his works which has been published. The pictures are well called “Drawings for the Human Race,” because they appeal to the sympathy of no particular religious denomination or political party, but to the universal delight in the happiest of holidays, consecrated by the loftiest associations and endeared by the tenderest domestic traditions. Christmas is the holiday of all; but it is especially the Children’s day. The grotesque and airy fancies of childhood which cling about Santa Claus, as the good genius of Christmas, are reproduced upon these pages, in delightfully imaginative reality by the sympathetic touch of th...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thomas-nast-s-christmas-drawings-for-the-human-race-72546/chapters/1/index.md)