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Valentine card: P.14425-R

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Valentine card

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Description

Valentine in three layers: A top layer of cameo-embossed white and silver lace-paper with a design of medieval lovers and classical columns with urns and foliage which is mounted with paper springs at upper left and right onto a second layer of white lace-paper. The third layer is a back paper of thin, pink laid paper. The top layer has a central oval window which contains a panel of white silk mounted with a cut-paper, hand-coloured bird with a real feather tail. A collaged garland of hand-coloured cut-paper leaves and flowers is affixed around the central silk panel. On the inside right-hand page is a handwritten verse and signed and dated message in black ink: ' "Beautiful birds! we see you around / When the bird's on the branch the snow's on the ground / ye come when the richest of roses flush out, / And ye come when the yellow leaf eddies about" / Beautiful emblems of friendship are ye, / Which yields a sweet solace as passing joy / flee. / To my uncle J.B. Woolmer / Feb. 14th 1859.'. It is possible that this valentine relates to two addressed to: 'Miss Woolmer / 71 Warwick Square / Pimlico / London'. See P.14580-R and P.14581-R.

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

Dating

19th Century
Production date: AD 1859-02-14

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14425-R
Primary reference Number: 215462

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018

Associated departments & institutions

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

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