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Valentine card: P.14411-R-28

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

White lace-paper with central window covered with a yellow (or yellowed) gauze blind mounted with an elaborate collage 'corsage' of real feathers of varying sizes and colours (blue and black striped, red, irridescent purple, white) held in a 'clasp' of gilt cut-paper bow and silver cut-paper leaves. A hand-painted design of flowers and fruit on the back-sheet is visible through the blind, although the feather collage obscures the hand-written verses which aren't readable until the card is opened: "These light and glowing feathers show / No borrow'd artificial hue / Thus far beyond the limner's art / 'Tis inborn nature dyes the heart ...".

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
1850 - 1870

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Watercolour
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14411-R-28
Primary reference Number: 214658
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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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