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True Love: P.14380-R

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

True Love
Valentine envelope

Maker(s)

Publisher: Marcus Ward & Co.

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Description

A valentine envelope with a chromolithographed design of flowers within a geometric border in pink and silver inks. A verse within an almond-shaped border at the centre: True Love / True Love's wreath / Is of mountain flowers, / They stand the storm, / And brave the blast, ...". MARCUS WARD & CO. printed at lower right. 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. 61. See also P.14381-R, of the same design but in different colours and with different verse. The envelope contains a ticket for Langton's Pioneer Express, a pony cart passenger and freight service which was founded by Samuel W. Langton in 1855 and served areas of California and Nevada until Langton's death in 1864.

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
1860 - 1870

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14380-R
Primary reference Number: 214545

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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