Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941) - 1899 Christmas card for the family

An artist on my favourites list, so nice to get these very personal artworks by him.

Artist: Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941)
Title: 1899 Christmas card for the family
Medium: watercolour on paper
Size: image size 170mm x 120mm
Inscription: Merry Xmas to all the family and a puppy New Year. 
Signed: yes, HJF 1899
Notes: This is a very special drawing [that comes from a family source], clearly to a close family member who is possibly getting a puppy for Christmas.

Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. He came to public attention when he provided the illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s. His precise illustrations were influenced by the work of Walter Crane and the Pre-Raphaelites, especially the ethereal figures and idealised classical and mediaeval settings of Edward Burne-Jones.