Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A white lace-paper front is mounted at upper centre with a collage of cut-paper fern fronds, silver lace-paper fern fronds and a chromolithographed paper butterfly. The butterfly is double layered and the top layer on each side lifts up to reveal two lithographed messages: 'DOUBT NOT / MY HEART / IS THINE ; AND LOVE / NONE ELSE / BUT YOU'. A piece of yellow and gilt embossed paper with flower design is affixed at the centre, flanked by glazed and embossed flower scraps and two white, embossed paper putti on rice-paper clouds, which would have originally lifted off the surface on paper springs, but which are now stuck down. A collage of real moss and white paper flowers with a small, silver metallic bow is arranged at lower centre. The lace-paper front is adhered to the back paper. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf above: '1867', which is probably a transcription of a date found on the verso of the valentine prior to mounting into the album. The hand is probably that of Catherine Parsons (1890-1956), who mounted and arranged Glaisher's valentine albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1867
Accession number: P.14418-R-43
Primary reference Number: 215391
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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