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Valentine card: P.14418-R-41

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Meek, George

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Description

A pink, embossed front of lace-paper with a design of sea-shells and coral around a central oval panel which is mounted with a chromolithograph of a chinese barge on a river, a pagoda on the right. A circular gilt lace-paper frame surrounds the central area of the lithograph. Mounted on paper springs at the centre (now stuck down) is a larger frame of cameo-embossed lace-paper with gilt detail and a design of flowers and Cupid (left) and probably Hymen (right). A glazed and embossed chromolithographed flower scrap is affixed at upper centre and at lower centre is a lithographed paper scroll with a motto printed in blue ink: 'Friendship's offering'. 'MEEK' is stamped along the spine. The front is without a back paper and is mounted directly onto the album leaf.

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

Lithography
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-41
Primary reference Number: 215389
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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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