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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A single piece of heavy cream card with an embossed border. At the centre and overlapping the border slightly is a large lithograph with hand-colouring in gouache of a gentelman leaning in through a casement window with leaded panes to speak to a woman in gold dress sitting on a pink sofa. A paper scroll printed in gold ink and with a motto printed in black ink is affixed at lower centre: 'I love thee for thy own dear / self'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
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Circa
1850
Hand colouring
Lithography
Gouache
Accession number: P.14417-R-91
Primary reference Number: 215320
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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