Explore the iconic Christmas poem with these four illustrations from 1931 by Arthur Rackham.
This download features 4 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 300dpi and range in size from 1173 pixels wide/tall to 1713 pixels wide/tall.
'A Visit from St. Nicholas', routinely referred to as 'The Night Before Christmas' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title 'Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas' in 1823. Authorship has been attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837, but it has also been suggested that Henry Livingston Jr. may have written it.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.
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