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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Loose inside album P.14417-R between nos. 84 and 89. Heavy, cream card, die-cut as a cartouche with shaped and scalloped edges. An embossed design of a crown (upper centre) and laurel boughs tied with a ribbon (left and right). At the centre is a lithographed border, hand-coloured with green and gold ink, around a hand-coloured lithographed outdoor scene of a dark-haired young girl in a blue dress holding a posy of flowers. A cut-paper scroll with lithographed gilt border and motto in green ink: 'We live to love.'. On the verso is a hand-written inscription in black ink: 'O, What beautiful / flowers ['flowers' underlined]'. Remnants of glue on the verso at upper and lower centre indicate that the valentine was previously pasted into an album or similar.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14417-R-L9
Primary reference Number: 215345
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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