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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Lace-paper of a design featuring a temple and a couple wearing classical dress. A circular window with a gilded frame and with a net backing contains a hand-coloured chalk lithograph cut-out of two cupids in a classical landscape. A printed verse inside a gilt-edged scroll is affixed at upper centre: "Sure my [?] you cannot blame / for virtue lights the tender flame". Inside is a hand-written inscription in Italian. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below P.14344-R-20 states: "21 /= was paid for this valentine in 1925". [ /= denotes shillings]. The hand has been identified as belonging to Glaisher's friend, local Antiquarian, Catherine Parsons (1890-1956), who arranged and assembled his valentine albums in 1924. Her hand is seen elsewhere throughout album P.14344-R.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14344-R-20
Primary reference Number: 214237
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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