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Valentine card: P.14419-R.f9r

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

Entities

Categories

Description

A small rectangle of white wove paper with a hand-coloured lithograph of a white lily with red rose buds flanked by urns of flowers and trees above with lithographed verse above and below: 'My life I dedicate / to thee, / And own myself / no longer free.'. The lithograph has been cut from a larger valentine design and is pasted at the centre of a leaf of pale pink wove paper within an embossed frame of roses and which is stamped by the maker of the album at lower left and right: 'Rock & Co London'.

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

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14419-R.f9r
Primary reference Number: 215410
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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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