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Valentine card
Publisher: Kershaw, George
White wove paper with an embossed border design of looping rope and flowers. A central design of a small puzzle purse (blank interior) decorated with stencilled red, bell-like flowers. A scalloped border is drawn around the puzzle purse. Stencilled branches with leaves and applied cut-paper, lithographed flowers in pink and yellow at upper and lower centre. 'KERSHAW [LO]N[DON]' stamped (upsidedown) at lower left and right. The interior is blank. See also P.14414-R-L9, another Kershaw design with a puzzle purse which was found loose in the same album between nos 58 and 59.
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-56
Primary reference Number: 215047
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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