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Valentine card
Publisher: Rimmel, Eugène
Silvered lace-paper with central panel of white silk, hand-painted in gouache with a convolvulus flower, buds and leaves. Below, at lower centre is a collage of white satin leaves joined by an embossed and glazed cherub head scrap. A small lozenge of white paper with lithographed motto in blue ink is affixed at the lower edge: 'I'll cling to thee'. A back paper of white coated paper. A stamp on the inside, right-hand page at the lower right corner: 'E. RIMMEL / PERFUMER / LONDON & PARIS'. On the verso are handwritten inscriptions in graphite at the upper right corner: 'n/u / 2/6 [2 shillings and sixpence]'. This is one of Rimmel’s ‘The Language of Flowers’ Valentines’, which are described in an 1867 advertisement:
‘Comprises a series of the following Flowers, prettily painted on the finest moiré antique, framed in Silver Lace:- SINGLE FLOWERS – QUARTO SIZE’. The ‘convolvulus – I’ll cling to thee’ is one of twelve flowers with attached meanings
listed.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1860
-
Circa
1870
Chromolithography
Collage
Gouache
Accession number: P.14434-R
Primary reference Number: 215471
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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