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Valentine card
Publisher: Windsor & Sons
A single leaf of pink embossed paper with an arched top and a lace-paper border of leaves and flowers with gilded detail. Affixed at the centre is a Baxter process print of a young boy wearing a green tudor-style tunic offering flowers to a girl in a pink costume sitting on a chair. The image is known as 'Presenting the Posy' and was produced by Baxter licensee, Joseph Mansell. The paper is printed with the message: "To my dear / little / favourite / from your / loving ..." and then hand-written in black ink, "Auntie". WINDSOR blind-embossed above the border at lower left. See _A Pictorial Catalogue of Joseph Mansell's Baxter Process Prints_, Compiled by Michael Martin, Brian Lawrence & Roger Smith for The New Baxter Society, 2006, Sheet 28 Children, reproduced no. 182, p. 51.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1840
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1860
Accession number: P.14343-R-109
Primary reference Number: 214175
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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