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To My Love Valentine card
Publisher: Mullord Bros.
White embossed paper with shaped edges decorated with collages of white satin leaves and scraps (blue flower and flaming hearts) at upper and lower centre. A smaller panel of white lace-paper with rounded corners and an oval window is mounted on paper springs at the centre. The oval window contains a silk panel which is printed in purple ink with a verse: 'TO MY LOVE / My love's like the / daffy-down-dilly, / White as the sun, fair / as the lily. / Heigh-ho! how I do / love thee! / I do love thee as the lambs / Are beloved of their dams; / How blest were I if / thou would'st / prove me!'. A second, smaller 'frame' of silver lace-paper is mounted on paper springs around the silk panel. 'MULLORD' is stamped at the centre (visible from the verso). The interior is blank. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '3 for 12 /= [12 shillings]'. This either relates to an inscription found on the verso of the card prior to mounting, or is transcribed from a list of valentines bought by Glaisher from a dealer, like that sent to Glaisher by second-hand book dealer, R.S. Frampton (See P.14416-R-L1). P.14417-R-98 is mounted onto the previous leaf in the album P.14417-R and is accompanied by the same inscription and therefore similarly identifed as one of three valentines that were bought for 12 shillings.
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
Chromolithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14417-R-99
Primary reference Number: 215328
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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