Current Location: In storage
Titles
Valentine card
Maker(s)
Publisher:
Mansell, Joseph
(Attributed)
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Description
White and silver embossed lace-paper with a design of flowers, putti and scrolling acanthus strapwork. An oval-shaped window at the centre contains a head and shoulders image of a young girl with brown ringleted hair and brown hat with ostrich feather reading a letter. The image is identifiable as a Baxter-process print with a 'key' plate of aquatint with stippling and woodblock colour printing overlaid. This particular design, known as 'The Plume' was produced by Joseph Mansell, who was a licensee of the Baxter-process print, and is seen in other valentines by Mansell; See: http://newbaxtersociety.org/features/2013feb.aspx. Although P.14418-R-7 does not appear to have a maker's stamp, it is almost certainly by Joseph Mansell. A lozenge below the central image bears a lithographed motto printed in blue ink: 'May happiness ever / attend thee'. The front paper is adhered to the back. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf above: '1861'. This is probably a transcription of a date found on the verso of the valentine or inside it prior to mounting into the album. The hand is unknown, but is the same as seen above no. 1 in the same album. See, _A Pictorial Catalogue of Joseph Mansell’s Baxter Process Prints_ compiled by Michael Martin, Brian Lawrence and Roger Smith for the New Baxter Society, 2006, Sheet 28 - Children, reproduced no. 174, 'The Plume', p.51. P.14342-R-33 employs the same Mansell Baxter-process print as a cut-out, but with a slightly different silvered paper design and with a different motto.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
