<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast" class="extiw" title="en:Thomas Nast">Thomas Nast</a>'s most famous drawing, "Merry Old Santa Claus", from the January 1, 1881 edition of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Weekly" class="extiw" title="en:Harper's Weekly">Harper's Weekly</a></i>. Thomas Nast immortalized Santa Claus' current look with an initial illustration in an 1863 issue of <i>Harper's Weekly</i>, as part of a large illustration titled "A Christmas Furlough" in which Nast set aside his regular news and political coverage to do a Santa Claus drawing. The popularity of that image prompted him to create another illustration in 1881.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast" class="extiw" title="en:Thomas Nast">Thomas Nast</a>
1881-01-01
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