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A Token Of Love: P.14417-R-27

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Token Of Love
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A small sachet valentine of white lace-paper with shaped edges tinted blue and a central roundel backed with white paper printed with a title and verse: 'A Token of Love / Friendship's sweet and / dear to me. / But true-love is sweeter still, / And I fain would show to thee, / How thy love my heart doth / fill. / Then let this token to my / dear one prove / The depth of my / unchanging love'. Flower scraps are affixed at upper and lower centre. P.14417-R-28 is almost identical, but employs a different scrap and different verse. Mounted with other similar sachet valentines in album P.14417-R. See P.14417-R-28, P.14417-R-31 and P.14417-R-32.

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

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14417-R-27
Primary reference Number: 215256

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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