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Valentine card: P.14413-R-L4

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Meek, George

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Description

Loose inside album P.14413-R, inside the back fly leaf. A home-made valentine comprising a small white cameo-embossed lace-paper 'front' affixed to the centre of a 'back' piece of larger white lace-paper of a different style and design which is mounted onto a larger sheet of blue wove paper. The spine of the lace-paper 'front' is still attached along the left edge and a scene at lower centre features a couple moving from a windmill at the left towards a church on the right. A central oval window is backed with a rectangular chromolithograph of a drinking fountain decorated with swags, flowers and white doves. On the verso of the chromolithograph is an oval medallion of white wove paper with lace-paper edge stamped 'MEEK' at upper centre. This paper is mounted with a circular disc of white wove paper with a scalloped edge and printed motto: 'A / LOVER'S / OFFERING.', below which is affixed a fake gold wedding ring. A length of purple ribbon is attached to the inside of the lace-paper 'front'. At the centre of the larger 'back' piece of lace-paper is a small, circular window with scalloped edge into which is inserted a disc of yellow paper with letterpress verse: 'MEMORY / At midnight hour I love / to think / On those most dear, most far from me; / And memory often at that hour / Would gladly wing its flight to / thee. ...'. A scrap of flowers and motto: 'TO ONE I LOVE' is affixed at lower centre.

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

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14413-R-L4
Primary reference Number: 214990

Audit data

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

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

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