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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Heart-shaped card with silvered embossed lace-paper front sheet of a flower garland design with a collage of blue silk leaves and silver tinsel flower affixed at lower centre. A scrap with printed verse in silver affixed at upper centre: "The flowers that / spring around / Are not so sweet / to me, / Tho' they with beau / ty deck the ground / They'll not compare / with thee." A window at the centre contains a chromolithographed posy of flowers mounted onto the back sheet bordered with a frame of silvered and embossed cut-paper leaves and one hand-coloured cut-paper pink rose. Initials inscribed in ink below: C. ?R. The front sheet adhered to the back sheet at the left side. Almost identical to another card, P.14411-R-45, mounted onto the same album leaf. Both cards use the same silvered embossed design, but with different scraps and collage elements. Similar heart-shaped cards in the Laura Seddon collection at Manchester Metropolitan University are dated 1850-60. See Volume 8, nos 9 and 10.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1850
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1860
Hand colouring
Chromolithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14411-R-43
Primary reference Number: 214673
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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