Valentine card
Publisher: Meek, George
White lace-paper (originally a double layer, but now pasted down), with a purple silk panel at lower centre mounted with a circular lace-paper frame containing a silver and white embossed paper Cupid with a collage of silver paper fern fronds. Below, at lower centre is a collage of white silk leaves and embossed paper leaves and embossed, chromolithographed flower scrap coated with varnish or glaze. Two small oval windows at upper centre contain chromolithographed flower sprays on silver paper. An embossed and gilt paper ornament of Cupid holding a flag with lithographed motto in red ink: 'Love and / Fidelity'. 'MEEK' is stamped along the spine at lower left. The front paper is adhered to the back paper.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14418-R-30
Primary reference Number: 215378
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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