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Valentine card
Publisher: Meek, George
A valentine with an embossed border and embossed flower sprays in each corner with hand-colouring. At the centre, a cut-paper chapel with lithographed detail and hand-coloured additions. The sky represented behind with blue watercolour strokes. The remains of a collage of real grasses at lower centre and a cut-paper lithographed motto in blue ink: 'I love thee / Yes, I love thee well / As heart can wish, or / tongue can tell'. An inscription in graphite, '70' on the inside right-hand page. MEEK stamped on the recto at lower right corner.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14536-R
Primary reference Number: 215481
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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