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To An Esteemed Friend Valentine card
Publisher: Kershaw, George
A small roundel of red transparent cellulose, lithographed in gold ink and mounted vertically inside a white and gilt cameo-embossed lace-paper sleeve (a scene of Cupid and tasselled curtain) with a central circular window. The sleeve is contained within a white lace-paper envelope with four flaps which is stamped: 'KERSHAW & SON' along the right-hand edge. A motto is lithographed in gold ink onto the cellulose: 'To an Esteemed Friend'. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below probably transcribes an inscription found on the verso prior to mounting: 'This valentine cost 10 /- in 1925'. The hand is recognisable as that of Miss Catherine Parsons and is seen in other albums throughout the collection, documenting and transcribing inscriptions, prices and maker's names. Catherine Parsons was a close friend of Glaisher towards the end of his life and undertook to arrange and mount his valentine collection into albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond. One of a group of lithographed cellulose valentines mounted or found loose in album P.14417-R, some of which are contained in lace-paper sleeves and/or envelopes.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1850
-
Circa
1860
Accession number: P.14417-R-11
Primary reference Number: 215240
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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