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Valentine card
Publisher: Meek, George
A large 4to-size valentine of embossed silver lace-paper with a central white wove paper panel framed with silver lace-paper containing a printed message on white silk: 'FROM ONE WHO LOVES YOU' and a printed motto on paper: 'CONSTANT / TO / THEE'. 'MEEK' is stamped on the white wove paper panel at lower centre. The panel operates as a door and is hinged at the left side and opens at the right to reveal a larger white silk panel which is hand-painted with purple flowers and a butterfly. The embossed silver lace-paper is decorated at upper and lower centre with small cut-paper lithographs of putti in blue and pink. The embossed silver lace-paper is mounted with paper springs onto a sheet of white wove paper with champfered corners, which is pasted to the album leaf along the left edge.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1870
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Circa
1880
Applied textile
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14417-R-71
Primary reference Number: 215300
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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