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Valentine card: P.14418-R-29

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co

Entities

Categories

Description

A white lace-paper envelope with four flaps, each containing an embossed scene of bridges and temples within roundels and oval medallions. The flaps open to reveal a leaf of embossed silver and pink lace-paper pasted into the envelope with a design of roses and putti and a roundel containing Cupid ready to fire his arrow flanked by birds of paradise at upper centre. A central oval window contains a chromolithographed flower display on silver paper. 'WOOD' is stamped onto the pink and silver paper at centre left.

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

Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-29
Primary reference Number: 215377
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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

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/215377 Accessed: 2024-03-29 06:51:25

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