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Valentine card
Publisher: Kershaw, George
Lithograph with hand-colouring on embossed 4to-size white wove paper. A central flower design (fuschia, narcissi, dahlias) is cut into a 'cobweb' device of quatrefoil shape. A silk thread lifts to reveal a hand-drawn and coloured image of two doves upon an urn. A lithographed verse above and below the central image: "Think not, Oh! think - this trifle vain, / That brings remembrance back again - / When, with a feeling fraught and true, / I wove a fragrant wreath for you ...". G KERSHAW embossed at lower centre. Graphite inscription on the verso: "603 / 21/6; 183 -". The inside pages are blank. A clipping from a sale catalogue is affixed to the album leaf: "603 Another specimen, by Kershaw (stamped), / equally fine, similar decoration and verses, ... / 21s". The clipping is from a catalogue of 1924 (No. 36) from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. See Valentinesarchive15. Four of Frampton's catalogues dating from the mid 1920s were found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. This valentine was bought at the same time as another Kershaw valentine, P.14410-R-11, which was listed as number 602 in the catalogue.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
-
1860
Accession number: P.14410-R-44
Primary reference Number: 214619
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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