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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Design for a puzzle purse. Woodcut with letterpress on a large folio size sheet of cream laid paper. The design is uncoloured and unused. A large printed square with verses and woodcut images, including a pair of flaming hearts, a pair of swans and a church, arranged around the edges and in a square formation at the centre. Watermark: [crown] / F / 1803. This card was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no.1.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1803
Accession number: P.14367-R
Primary reference Number: 214532
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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