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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A large 8vo white wove paper valentine with an embossed border design of lyres, music, trumpets and acanthus scrolls. At the centre is a lozenge of applied pale orange lace-paper (positioned as upright) which contains a panel of green tissue paper with a hand-painted design of leafy branches and applied pink paper hand-coloured flowers. Four silver paper ornaments of laurel wreaths and love knots are affixed around the central lozenge over stencilled sprays of leafy branches in blue ink/paint. A verse is hand-written at upper and lower centre: 'Believe my love these lines are true / None are so dear to me as you'. The interior is blank. Although the paper is unstamped, the design of this card is very similar to another, P.14414-R-48, mounted in the same album and which bears the Kershaw stamp.
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
Accession number: P.14414-R-55
Primary reference Number: 215046
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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