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Let us be up and doing: P.14420-R.f31ri

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Let us be up and doing
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Mansell, Joseph

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Description

A valentine of white embossed lace-paper with a design of scrolls and with hand colouring in pink, green and blue watercolour. A window at the centre with a scalloped edge contains a white silk panel lithographed with a title and verse in blue ink: 'Let us be up and doing. / LIVES of great men all remind us / We can make our lives sublime, / And departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sand of time: / Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labour, and to wait.'. 'MANSELL' is stamped at lower centre. The front paper is adhered to the back. An initial 'E' is written in graphite on the album leaf below the valentine. The names 'Edith' and 'Netty' are written into the album. These names would probably account for the single initials of 'E' or 'N' written on the album leaves adjacent to a number of the valentines in the album. The initials presumably indicate either from whom they were received or to whom they were sent.

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
Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14420-R.f31ri
Primary reference Number: 215434

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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