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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A 'raised' valentine composed of three layers; A first layer of white coated embossed lace-paper with gilt detail and shaped edges, a window at the centre edged with pleated cream paper 'ribbon'. Decorated at lower centre with a collage of fabric flowers, cream paper 'ribbon' bow and green feather foliage threaded with colourless beads (as dewdrops?) and with printed motto on a scroll: 'With my Love'. Scraps of flower wreaths with golden arrows are affixed at upper left and right. This layer is mounted with paper springs onto a third layer of plain embossed paper. A second layer mounted onto the third layer is of gilt lace-paper with central oval window containing a chromolithograph on a black ground of a boy and girl arm in arm. The inside pages are blank. Hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf: '3 /' [3 shillings]. Presumably relates to an inscription found on the verso of the card.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1870
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1880
Accession number: P.14413-R-13
Primary reference Number: 214863
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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