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Valentine card: P.14418-R-22

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Silver and white embossed lace-paper panel of a design of roses and latticework which is affixed to a plain white wove back paper with paper springs, but which are now all pasted down. A central window with scalloped edges features rose garlands stretching across the window at upper left and right and lower left and right which would originally have been rendered three-dimensional when the upper layer was 'raised' on the paper springs. At the centre of the window and mounted onto the back paper which is hand-coloured as blue sky and yellow dawn/sunset, is a collaged wreath of cut-paper green leaves, with gilt detail, decorated with hand-coloured and glazed paper apples, red rose buds and blue flowers. Inside the wreath is a hand-coloured and embossed paper dove carrying a silver paper envelope in its beak. Such envelopes would usually contain a hand-written or printed motto, but this one is blank. Affixed at lower centre is a large paper scroll with details lithographed in gold ink bears a motto lithographed in blue ink: 'Affections Offering'.

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-22
Primary reference Number: 215370
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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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