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Valentine card: P.14414-R-24

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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

Cream lace-paper with central window and blind of cream gauze mounted with a collage of hand-coloured cut-paper flowers and leaves with small red felt flowers and real moss on a lace-paper roundel. Indentations at the centre of the two large pink and white flowers suggest that applied beads or jewels are missing. A hand-painted design of flower garlands and a lithographed verse in bronze ink on the inside right-hand page is seen through the gauze blind at upper and lower centre. The verse reads: 'Of flowers the fairest of the grove. Accept and let them be / An emblem of unfading love. For such is mine to thee'. A hand-written verse in black ink between the garlands on the inside right-hand page (by the sender): 'To be beloved is all I need, / And when I love I _love_ indeed'. Watermark: J WHA[TMAN] / 18[...]. A hand-written inscription in graphite at lower right corner of inside right-hand page, presumably written by a dealer: 'Rare [?crit] work variety / 5/6 [5 shillings sixpence] 183-'.

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 1830 - Circa 1840

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Watercolour
Lithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14414-R-24
Primary reference Number: 215015

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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