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Hope: P.14417-R-104

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Hope
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

White wove paper with an embossed border, overlaid on paper springs with cameo-embossed white paper with silver detailing and a design featuring roses, leaves and a winged Cupid holding an arrow at upper centre. A circular window at the centre contains an embossed chromolithographed wreath of forget-me-nots trimmed around the outside with white gauze leaves. The wreath is mounted on paper springs to a sheet of white wove paper which is printed with a letter-press verse: 'HOPE / There is a smile for / every sigh, / For every wound a balm; / A joy for every moistened eye, / For every storm a calm. ...'. The interior is blank. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf at lower right: '3 /= [3 shillings]'. This either relates to inscriptions found on the verso 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).

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1870 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14417-R-104
Primary reference Number: 215333

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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