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Valentine card: P.14342-R-44

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Windsor & Sons

Entities

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Description

Heavily-embossed valentine of two layers of paper of the same coral and shell grotto design, held together with paper springs. Two Cupids sitting on lace-paper clouds within the paper design are firing arrows at upper left and right. Three apertures in the paper at the centre are filled with cut-paper embossed and hand-coloured fairies, the central 'fairy' mother Venus sitting in a scallop shell and holding a baby Cupid who pulls back a bow. Fabric, glittered leaves are pasted behind the figures and at lower left and right (one missing at the right). A lithographed cut-paper swag printed in gold and blue ink with motto: 'Intended as a token of / sincere affection'. A blindstamp: 'WINDSOR' at lower right.

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-44
Primary reference Number: 206524
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Wednesday 6 February 2019 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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