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Believe Me Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A small, 48mo-size 'raised' valentine comprising a top layer of lace-paper with central oval window, decorated with gilt embossed flowers in each corner and mounted with paper springs to a second layer of white embossed paper with shaped edges tinted blue. A large flower scrap is affixed over the central window and lifts up to reveal a letterpress verse printed on a circle of lilac paper with a crimped edge: 'BELIEVE ME / Lovely thou art, / ay lovely, / In spirit and in form; / A sunbeam glancing / o'er life's tears, / A rainbow through / the storm'. The second layer of embossed paper is decorated with scraps of violet garlands at upper and lower centre. The front paper is adhered to the back paper.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1870
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Circa
1880
Letterpress
Chromolithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14413-R-107
Primary reference Number: 214956
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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