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My Own Choice Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A hand-coloured lithograph on 4to-sized thin wove paper. An elaborate 'illuminated' border featuring stylised flowers enclosing a vignette of an embracing couple flanked by Cupids/putti with a church in the background. The title incorporated as part of the border at upper centre: MY OWN CHOICE and a printed verse below the vignette: "My own, my fondest, and my choice, / Yours is the charm and yours the voice, / Of Love that leads my captive heart, / Within the range of Cupid's dart, ...". The inside pages are blank. From a series. P.14347-R-L3 is a duplicate. The Museum of London holds a few examples from the same series: See 34.170/1127, with the title, CONSTANT EVER; 34.170/1120, with the title, HOPE / LOVE and 34.170/1133, with the title TRUE BLUE, all of which are given a date of 1860-1880.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1860
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1880
Accession number: P.14346-R-18
Primary reference Number: 214404
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: P.14347-R-L3
Accession Number: P.14417-R-22
Accession Number: P.12145-R
Accession Number: P.14417-R-31
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