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Valentine card
Publisher: Windsor & Sons
Blue and white embossed lace-paper with gilded detail in a design of baskets of flowers and Cupids with a couple in classical drapery, Cupid/Hymen on their shoulders, standing at the centre beneath a latticed archway. An open book within the paper design at upper centre with gilt detail and gilt printed verse: "My heart / is Thine / only Thine / my Long / loved chosen / Valentine". A coloured cut-paper wreath of flowers with a silver tinsel bow below and a chromolithographed scrap of Cupid with his bow at lower centre with another cut-paper flower garland. The inside pages are blank. WINDSOR embossed at lower left. A Diamond Mark (1842-1883) is stamped at lower right.
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-73
Primary reference Number: 214703
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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