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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
12mo-size white lace-paper (front sheet pasted to back sheet) with pink net blind at the centre through which is partially visible a hand-painted design of flowers with verse incribed above and below: "Of Flowers the fairest of the grove Accept & let them be / An Emblem of unfading love For such is mine to thee". The original hand-painted design has been largely covered by a collage of cut-paper flowers arranged within a round of lace-paper as a bouquet and affixed to the net blind. A hand-written inscription on the inside right-hand page: [...] J [?m].
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1850
-
1870
Accession number: P.14411-R-10
Primary reference Number: 214640
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/214640 Accessed: 2025-12-12 03:52:06
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