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Valentine card
Publisher: Windsor & Sons
Small circular albumen print of head and shoulders of a lady with long brown hair (circa 1840s) within cut-paper frame of blue flowers mounted on gilded die-cut and lace-paper 'wings' which open with dark blue ribbon ties. Inside is a perfume-sachet (cotton wool which would have been soaked in perfume visible inside) mounted with a chromolithograph of flowers and wooden baroque-style frame at the centre of which is a silk panel printed with a verse: "TO My Beloved / By the sun above us / shining, / By the stars that light / the sea / By all the hopes my / heart entwining / That heart is ever true / to thee.". WINDSOR stamped on the verso (left edge). 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. 50.
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 1870
Albumen print
Chromolithography
Accession number: P.14408-R
Primary reference Number: 214573
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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