'A toast to thee, fair damsel! A Jolly Christmas to you'

Chromolithographic greetings card, after Harry Payne, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1885 (c).

This card depicts an officer of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers toasting a woman outside her cottage. He wears the traditional lancer chapka helmet and regimental uniform of a blue tunic with scarlet breast and blue pantaloons.