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How to Build a Happy Home Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A small, 48mo-size valentine of white lace-paper (now stained and dirty with losses at the left side) has a central oval panel mounted with a pair of cut-paper, hand-coloured beehives, a collage of cut-paper coloured flowers and leaves below. At lower centre is a white paper scroll with lithographed instructions in gold: 'HOW TO BUILD A HAPPY HOME / Let Integrity be the Architect, Tidiness the Upholsterer / Let it be warmed by Affection ... HOME WILL BE HAPPY'. The front paper is adhered to the back paper.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1840
Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14414-R-91
Primary reference Number: 215082
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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