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Valentine card
Publisher: Windsor & Sons
A white lace-paper roundel mounted with a smaller sheet of white card cut into the shape of a tasselled curtain with gilt embossed detailing. "WINDSOR" is stamped at lower centre. A silvered and embossed cut-paper design of putti supporting a lattice-work silver rose bowl hung with garlands is mounted with paper springs. A collage of cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers and foliage is arranged above the bowl and glittered fabric leaves affixed to left and right. A printed verse within a cut-paper medallion is affixed onto the lace-paper roundel at lower centre: "True love is like a Gordian knot / Which angel hands have tied; / The heavenly skill its texture wrought / Who shall its folds divide?" There is no back sheet and the lace-paper is adhered directly to the album leaf.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1840
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1860
Accession number: P.14411-R-39
Primary reference Number: 214669
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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