Our new range of Christmas cards are now available to purchase from The Morrab Library.
This year, there are five new card designs, capturing various views and inspirations of the library from a number of different perspectives.
Single cards – £1.50 each
Three cards of any design – £4.00
Five cards of any design – £6.50
We are happy to send you your order in the post for a small additional fee, if you can’t make it in to collect them.
Our first card shows a snowy Quay Street in Penzance in the 1950s, an image from our historic Photo Archive collection. The emulsion damage to the negative serves to enhance the chilly atmosphere in this photo. This card is now sold out.
Our next is a more recent, and quite rare, image of the library surrounded by snow, captured by our library assistant Harriet on the 18th January this year
Harriet also created our third card, The Morrab Gardens Christmas cats, inspired by our oft-seen furry visitors!
Library Assistant James has also contributed a design, inspired by a Christmas card in our Lamorna Birch scrapbook collection, an exciting new donation to the Photo Archive in 2024
We welcomed library member Faye Dobinson as our artist-in-residence in 2024, and asked if she might create an exclusive Christmas design for the library, inspired by her time with us. She created this beautiful cyanotype of holly and ivy using plants from the surrounding Morrab Gardens.