Reproducing delicate watercolours by margaret w tarrant 1888shy1959 telling the christmas story inspired by paintings and sketches made on a 6shyweek trip to the holy land in 1936 sponsored by the medici society to encourage her religious painting tarrant preferred to sketch from life and having worked for the medici society since 1920 many of her diaryquots paintings and sketches from the trip were collected in quota journey to the holy landquot published by the society in 1988p