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Valentine card: P.14346-R-43

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

White paper front sheet with embossed border (as lace). The paper has been roughly cut down along both sides and is quite badly marked with surface dirt at upper left and upper centre. A hand-coloured lithograph within the central panel; a couple in an embrace within a curtained interior garlanded with flowers, an urn to the right. A verse printed above and below the image: "When through the blushing eastern sky / The dawning sun first peeps on thee / Think of me love and think that I / As true, as constant, think on thee." A handwritten inscription in graphite at upper centre which is indicipherable. The same embossing design and arrangement of lithographed image and verse are seen in P.14346-R-45, indicating that these cards were from a series.

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

Dating

19th Century
Probably 1840 - 1850

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14346-R-43
Primary reference Number: 214429
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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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