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Valentine card: P.14413-R-103

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Windsor & Sons

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Description

Gilded cameo-embossed paper top layer with a scene of courting couples and central circular window, affixed with a printed motto at lower centre: 'Tenderly Thine'. The paper is attached with paper springs to a larger second layer of plain wove paper with an embossed border. The second layer is mounted with an embossed scrap of a half-length, dark-haired woman wearing a yellow dress and holding a red rose that is viewed through the central window. 'WINDSOR' is stamped at lower left of the gilded top layer. The back paper is missing.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1870 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14413-R-103
Primary reference Number: 214952
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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