The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds – William Henry Margetson – Beautiful Christmas Art – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):18x24 Premium Canvas as it gives a clear

as it gives a clear setting of their poverty

but at the time of this card (1881) they had almost nothing to show for progress in building it even though they'd been working at it since 1875

the border is about 1

among others

About 2" wide

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds – William Henry Margetson – Beautiful Christmas Art – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):18x24 Premium Canvas as it gives a clearWilliam Henry Margetson (1861 1940) was a British painter, trained at the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts, the latter of which he became a formal member of in 1909. That institution also purchased this painting in 1906 after it had displayed it in their exhibition that year. He mostly painted women, from the Victorians onward. (His painting A New Day looks like it could have been of the daughter in one of the Downton Abbey movies.)