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Valentine card: P.14413-R-128

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Current Location: In storage

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

White wove paper with shaped and scalloped edges, the back paper has been removed along the left edge. The paper is mounted with a gilt lace-paper panel with a central roundel. The roundel is backed with a panel of grey/green velvet with a chromolithographed scrap of a peasant girl feeding doves superimposed at the centre and flanked with a collage of real moss as trees/vegetation within the scene. The gilt panel is decorated at upper and lower centre with embossed scraps of a colourful bird and posy of flowers.

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 1860 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14413-R-128
Primary reference Number: 214977

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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