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Valentine card: P.14530-R

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Current Location: In storage

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Mansell, Joseph

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Description

White lace-paper decorated at upper and lower corners with small scraps of pink roses and overlaid with a 'frame' of gilt embossed paper mounted on paper springs and trimmed with woven lace and affixed at lower centre with a small silk roundel framed with a garland of embossed flowers and printed with a verse: 'Tis sweet to love, / for in that joy, / its purity hath no alloy'. The 'frame' surrounds a chromolithograph with embossed gilt detail throughout of a woman dressed in purple seated in profile facing left holding a letter in her hands, a lute propped to her left. The front paper is adhered to the back paper at upper and lower corners. MANSELL is stamped on the white lace-paper at lower centre. Remnants of buff-coloured paper adhered to the verso indicate that this valentine was previously mounted.

Legal notes

Given by Sir Stephen Gaselee, 1942

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1942) by Gaselee, Stephen

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14530-R
Primary reference Number: 215475

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 6 May 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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