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Valentine card: P.14418-R-9

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Categories

Description

White embossed lace-paper with gilt details. Scrolling acanthus with tasselled and fringed curtains and a central window with a gauze blind decorated with a silver tinsel flower and cut-paper leaves and a cut-paper open book with lithographed detail in gold ink and a verse printed in blue ink: 'AFFECTION / I HAVE / IN STORE / FOR THEE / AND EVER / FAITHFUL / I WILL / BE'. At lower centre is a collage of fabric leaves and cut-paper leaves with hand-coloured pink flower and wax stamens. The front paper is adhered to the back.

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

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-9
Primary reference Number: 215357
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Monday 29 May 2017 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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