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Valentine card
Publisher: Rock & Co.
Etching on white embossed paper of flowers and paper scroll, hand-coloured and cut as a 'cobweb' with a silk thread which lifts to reveal a printed cupid kneeling in a boat. A verse hand-written in faded black ink above and below the central image and signed with initials: "How sweet is the rosebud just opening to view / Entwined with the lilly [sic] and violet blue ... F.B.". Embossed stamp at lower right: ROCK . LONDON. Inscription in graphite at lower right corner: "1/-" [1 shilling]. The inside pages are blank. The paper has previously been folded into quarters. 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. 18. A graphite number "18" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1830
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1840
Accession number: P.14410-R-7
Primary reference Number: 214582
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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