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Valentine card: P.14345-R-L2

Object information

Current Location: In storage

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Watercolour paint, gouache and varnish on white silk panel (stained and foxed) backed with card which is covered with paper. A trimming of lace around the edges with small white beads stitched around the corners and at the centre of each edge. Colourless glass beads at three of the corners. White beads and a colourless glass bead are missing at the lower left corner. The painted panel shows a scene of a sailboat on a lake surrounded by mountains and with a frame of white blossom (added in gouache) in the foreground. A French verse is painted onto the panel below: "Pensez a moi, qui ne pense qu' a vous". Found loose inside front cover of album P.14345.

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

French

Techniques used in production

Watercolour
Gouache

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14345-R-L2
Primary reference Number: 214385
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 6 July 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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