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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A home-made valentine consisting of a large 8vo sheet of thick cream card mounted with a large cut-out, hand-coloured lithograph of a red rose bud with a clump of purple and white violets growing at the base of the stem. A verse is written below in a calligraphic hand in black ink: 'Be violets in their secret mews / the flowers the wanton Zephyrs choose / Proud be the rose with rain and dews / her head impearling'. Below, in the same calligraphic hand but written in graphite: 'To my love'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14414-R-26
Primary reference Number: 215017
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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