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Valentine card: P.14342-R-41

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

J.T. Wood & Co

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Description

A delicate front of silvered lace-paper in a design of lily of the valley flowers curved around from left and right to form a heart-shaped aperture at the centre. A cameo-embossed scene of Cupid and Hymen around a pudding with doves to left and right. A paper swag printed in silver ink with the verse: 'Ask not why I love thee / Why is heaven divine / I only know I cannot tell thee / But my heart is thine'. A blindstamp: 'WOOD' at lower right (just below the doves). Seen through the central aperture is a hand-coloured lithograph of a church which has been cut and pasted onto a watercolour background with a cut and pasted lace-paper frame (possibly concocted by the sender). A collage of real moss and fabric flowers are arranged below the lithograph inside the card, again possibly affixed by the sender of the valentine.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Embossing
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14342-R-41
Primary reference Number: 206521

Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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