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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Embossed white lace-paper (front adhered to the back) with a central roundel containing a hand-coloured lithograph of a bearded king wearing a white robe and red cloak and holding an orb in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. Similar in style to two other valentines with the same lace-paper design and central roundels containing hand-coloured lithographs which are all probably by the same hand and mounted on adjacent leaves of album P.14417-R. See P.14417-R-86 and P.14417-R-87.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
-
1850
Hand colouring
Lithography
Gouache
Accession number: P.14417-R-84
Primary reference Number: 215313
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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