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First Love Valentine card
Publisher: Rimmel, Eugène
A large envelope of white lace-paper with 'SOUVENIR' embossed at the centre of the recto. Four flaps on the verso open to reveal a lace-paper bordered chromolithograph of a couple walking in a moonlit garden towards a fountain in the distance on the right. A gateway with temple is seen on the left. Cupid and two putti are hiding behind an urn in the foreground. Cupid prepares to fire an arrow towards the couple. A title: 'First Love' is printed at lower right. A medallion set within the lace-paper frame is embossed with the maker's name: 'E RIMMEL / PERFUMER LONDON'. An advertising leaflet for Rimmel's Perfumed Valentines of 1875 lists shilling valentine 367 as 'Souvenir, forming a card case', which would seem to be an accurate description of this valentine. (An example of the leaflet is in Malcolm Warrington's valentine collection).
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1860
-
Circa
1900
Accession number: P.14417-R-48
Primary reference Number: 215277
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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