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Valentine card: P.14418-R-54

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

White lace-paper with a central oval window containing a rice-paper blind mounted with a chromolithographed scrap of two barefoot peasant children, a boy addressing a girl who is seated on the ground. A collage of cut-paper leaves with glazed flower scraps at lower centre. A small, circular chromolithographed motto with a crimped edge is affixed at upper centre: 'MY LOVE'S / SINCERE.'. The front paper is adhered to the back.

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
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-54
Primary reference Number: 215402
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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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