Thomas Nast has ... his most famous “Christmas during the Civil War” cartoons have come to the Lee-Fendall House Museum and Garden in Old Town Alexandria and will be on public display during ...

Thomas Nast’s Christmas drawings gave him the opportunity to devote his talent to a subject very close to his heart. He successfully captured the traditions, customs and tales of the magic and ...

But another of the most enduring parts of his legacy as an illustrator comes in the form of the figure who is most associated with Christmas: Santa Claus. Nast first drew him for the January 3 ...

The decorations are complemented by about 30 of the Museum’s Christmas images by nineteenth-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast, which will be displayed throughout the Museum. The museum ...

“It gave Christmas to the North—gave to the Union cause an aura of domestic sentiment, and even sentimentality.” The artist responsible for this coup? A Bavarian immigrant named Thomas Nast ...