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Valentine card
A quarto, jewelled valentine front of white lace-paper with brown-coloured, stencilled borders. The front-paper has a secondary support of grey paper, probably a leaf from a different album from which it has been cut out for insertion into this album. A central aperture with gauze blind and brown paper panel behind mounted with a cut-paper and hand-coloured figure of a lady wearing an orange dress holding flowers and fruits and with a basket of flowers. The aperture is framed with gilded lace-paper leaves and cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers (forget-me-not, convolvulus) and glittered white silk leaves and red 'jewel and 'turquoise 'jewel' (a second red jewel lost) at lower centre. A handwritten verse at upper left and right: 'Oh! smile my dear / That I may see / Love dwells within / Thy heart for me.'. A small, cut-paper and hand-coloured Hymen, holding a flaming torch and sitting on a rice-paper cloud is affixed at upper centre. 'MANSELL' faintly blind-stamped at lower left. See also 'Acton' valentine, P.14384-R, a similar jewelled valentine, presumed to be by Mansell.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1852
Hand colouring
Embossing
Lithography
Accession number: P.14342-R-79
Primary reference Number: 206559
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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