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Valentine card
A heavily-collaged valentine of silvered and embossed lace-paper of a design of climbing roses. A central aperture with gauze blind mounted with large sprays of fabric flowers, cut-paper leaves and real grasses. A central bouquet of white and blue fabric flowers, leaves and grasses. An interior silvered paper frame is visible through the blind, which when opened reveals a central medallion inscribed in pen and ink: 'To Diana'. On the verso is an extensive missive and verse, 'Virelay', from a suitor of the actress Diana from whom two further valentines are contained in this album (See also nos. 49 and 52 and the record for the album, P.14342-R): 'I love the good old customs / of St Valentine's famed day / So with right good will / I seize a quill / to indite a Virelay / to my Ladye Fayre / with the golden hair / who at Brighton now doth stay / _Virelay_ / Although far away Love / near the Deep Sea / My dreams night & day Love / are ever of thee / For thy return Love / I watch wearily / my eyes they still yearn Love / my own one to see / So homewards quick fly Love / and once more let me / as in days gone bye Love / thy Valentine be'. Signed with a monogram which is rendered illegible by the trimming of the paper along the lower edge, possibly to erase the identity of the sender.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1870
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Circa
1880
Hand colouring
Embossing
Collage
Accession number: P.14342-R-76
Primary reference Number: 206556
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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