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Valentine card: P.14418-R-57

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Categories

Description

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.

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-57
Primary reference Number: 215405
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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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