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Valentine card
Publisher: Kershaw, George
White lace-paper border and central rectangular panel with a scalloped edge mounted with four roses cut from pink paper with lithographed detail in red ink and cut-paper green leaves with stems and tendrils hand-drawn in red ink around a drawing of the word 'LOVE' in gold ink with cutwork letters. A hand-written inscription above and below the central decoration in black ink: 'Dearest believe I / sincerely and truly love thee'. A different inscription in the same hand is seen on an almost identical card in the same album, P.14414-R-40. 'KERSHAW' stamped at lower centre. The stamp is not very 'clean' and difficult to decipher. A hand-written inscription in graphite at the inside upper right corner: 'J/C'. Similar inscriptions/markings in graphite are found on other cards in the same album.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
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Circa
1850
Pen and ink
Lithography
Cut-paper work
Accession number: P.14414-R-2
Primary reference Number: 214993
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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