Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White lace-paper mounted with a smaller panel of silver and white cameo-embossed lace-paper with a design of trees, a palace on the right, an urn containing flowers on a fluted plinth on the left and a bird with a nest of eggs at upper left. The panel is mounted on paper springs which are now stuck down. A framed oval window at upper centre contains a chromolithographed urn with flowers. A roughly-cut, head and shoulders chromolithograph of a winged putto is slipped into the area at the centre of the silver and white paper. A collage (of a metallic silver paper fern frond and a green and white fabric leaf (wing?) is mounted at lower centre. The front paper is adhered to the back.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14418-R-57
Primary reference Number: 215405
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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