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Valentine card: P.14418-R-53

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Mansell, Joseph

Entities

Categories

Description

A small, 48mo-size valentine of white, embossed lace-paper with a central design of a wreath of roses which is mounted with a chromolithographed scrap of a putto carrying flowers in a pink swag and a flower wreath on a stick over his left shoulder. A fern frond of green silk is positioned behind the putto. 'MANSELL' is stamped along the spine 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

Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-53
Primary reference Number: 215401
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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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