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Valentine card: P.14393-R

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Mossman, David (paper manufacturer and embosser)

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Description

Hand-painting on white silk panel within lace-paper with a collage of hand-coloured flowers of cut-paper and green felt with tinsel leaves, a pink tissue slip behind. A message inscribed by the sender in black ink at lower left and right: "Keep it forever". MOSSMAN embossed at lower right and upper left corners. The paper has been folded around the edges. On the verso: "1820" written faintly in graphite. 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. 23.

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
Circa 1830 - 1840

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14393-R
Primary reference Number: 214558
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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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