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Valentine card
White lace-paper with central aperture containing a chromolithograph of a man in 18th-century French costume presenting a posy to a lady in the grounds of a chateau. A printed motto: 'My love for thine' is affixed at lower centre and a pair of embossed, silver and gilt die-cut hearts shot through with Cupid's arrows. Opens to hand written inscription: 'Mamma / 1867'. The inscription appears to be written in the same hand as those found in P.14342-R-26 and P.14342-R-7 and which would seem to identify these cards as a group that were sent from a mother to her child in the 1860s.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1867
Accession number: P.14342-R-27
Primary reference Number: 206507
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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