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Valentine card: P.14344-R-46

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Lace-paper with a design of leaves and flowers. A central oval window backed with rice paper is decorated with a silver paper cut-out of Cupid pulling back his bow. hand colouring of the ground and sky onto the rice-paper and around the edges of the window with cut-paper and fabric leaves and flowers. A silver paper cut-out of a pair of doves on a branch at upper centre. The inside of the card is blank.

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

Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14344-R-46
Primary reference Number: 214263
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 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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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/214263 Accessed: 2024-11-23 05:31:12

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