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Valentine card: P.14414-R-88

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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

12mo-size white wove paper with waved 'solomonic' embossed border. At the centre is a heart-shaped window with a scalloped edge and a blind of pink tissue paper decorated with stencilled leaves and stems and an applied hand-cut and hand-coloured flower. A 'scallop shell' border in gold ink is lithographed around the outer edge of the window. A lithographed verse in gold ink is located above and below the window: 'Naught on earth so dear to me / As to know my love return'd by thee'. Leafy stems with applied silver paper butterfly ornaments are lithographed in green ink at upper and lower centre. A 'scallop shell' edging is lithographed in gold ink. The front paper is adhered to the back paper. There are other cards of a similar design in album P.14414-R, all of which employ the same wavy, embossed border. One of these, P.14414-R-60, also has a central window with scalloped edge and P.14414-R-20 employs similar lithographed leafy branches and gold 'scallop shell' border.

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-88
Primary reference Number: 215079

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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