A woodcut of the British Royal family with their tree at Windsor Castle was copied in "Godey's" at Christmas 1850. The engraving was based on an earlier image of Queen Victoria and her decorated Christmas tree previously published in "The Illustrated London News" in December 1848. The "Godey's" version removed Victoria's tiara and Prince Albert's mustache altering their faces to remake the engraving into an American scene. It was the first widely circulated picture of a decorated evergreen Christmas tree in America, and Art historian Karal Ann Marling called it "the first influential American Christmas tree". Folk-culture historian Alfred Shoemaker summed up that "in all of America there was no more important medium in spreading the Christmas tree in the decade 1850–60 than "Godey's Lady's Book"". The image was reprinted in 1860 and, by the 1870s, erecting a Christmas tree had become common in the United States home.