IDENTIFIERS
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id:	215471
accession number:	P.14434-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 14 February 2017
updated:	Friday 26 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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
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title:	Valentine card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215471





TECHNIQUES
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chromolithography
TECHNIQUES
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collage
TECHNIQUES
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gouache

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1860 - 1870
creation date earliest:	1860
creation date latest:	1870
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Rimmel, Eugène


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