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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White coated and embossed card with an oval window surrounded with an additional lace-paper frame and backed with hand-painted violets on a panel of white silk. A silver-framed motto affixed at lower centre: 'SOUVENIR'. A folding valentine which opens to reveal three additional mounted panels of white card with lace-paper edges and roughly-cut windows bordered with chromolithographed violet garlands. The upper panel is backed with a chromolithographed scene of a 17th-century couple in a rural landscape, the lower panel with a chromolithographed scene of a rural town with church and the central panel is backed with white silk printed in blue ink with the verse: 'Receive this simple expression / Of my true constant affection'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1860
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1880
Watercolour
Applied textile
Chromolithography
Accession number: P.14413-R-71
Primary reference Number: 214920
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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