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Valentine card: P.14415-R-L4

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Kershaw, George

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Description

Loose inside album P.14415-R, on the fifth leaf. A 4to-size front of white wove paper with an embossed border. At the centre is a rectangular panel of white lace-paper with a central diamond-shaped window bordered with silver, metallic paper and with a blind of dark green tissue paper mounted with a silver paper dove ornament bearing a branch surrounded by radiating strokes of gold ink. There are stencilled flower stems and leaves with applied paper flowers above and below the diamond-shaped window. Around the lace-paper panel are silver paper flower ornaments at the four corners and early lithography in gold ink: flower garlands to left and right and verse above and below. The text of the verse is missing in places due to weak impression: 'Why should I blush to own I love / Tis love that rules the [ ...] / Why blush, to say, to all / That virtue holds my heart in thrall ...'. The poem is by Henry Kirke White (1785-1806). The back paper is missing. 'KERSHAW' is stamped at the lower right of the central lace-paper panel. Elements of P.14415-R-L4 are almost identical to those seen in other valentines which also demonstrate early lithography and are contained in album P.14414-R. See especially P.14414-R-89, which employs the same green tissue paper blind, dove ornament and radiating lines in addition to the stencilled stems, leaves and applied paper flowers.

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

Lithography
Collage
Gouache

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14415-R-L4
Primary reference Number: 215142

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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