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Valentine card and envelope
Publisher: Kershaw, George
A valentine contained inside an envelope. The valentine has a silver cameo-embossed lace-paper front with an oval window at lower centre. The embossed design features a medallion at upper centre containing a pair of lovers promenading in parkland, the gentleman gesturing towards a church. A Baxter-process print displayed in the window features a young girl with a tabby cat on her right shoulder and holding a stem of flowers in her right hand. The print is composed of a combination of etching, stippling, aquatint and colour-block printing in red, yellow, blue, green and pink. The print is contained within a frame of embossed white paper foliage which is edged with gilt paper foliage (this is revealed on the opening of the valentine). A paper scroll with gilt detail and printed in blue ink with the motto: 'To my Valentine', is affixed at lower centre. KERSHAW is stamped along the spine at centre left. Inside, the Baxter-process print and frame are mounted onto the inside right-hand page. The accompanying envelope is of white wove paper with an embossed border design on the recto and an embossed medallion containing Cupid and dove on the opening flap on the verso. A handwritten name and address in black ink on the recto: 'Miss H.L.Woolmer / 71 Warwick Square / Pimlico / London'. It is possible that this valentine relates to P.14425-R, which is inscribed: 'To my uncle J.B. Woolmer / Feb. 14th 1859.'. P.14580-R is a similar valentine by Kershaw, featuring a Baxter-process print of a girl with a dog, which is also contained within an envelope addressed to the same recipient. See e-mail correspondence between Rebecca Virag and Roger Smith on behalf of the New Baxter Society, 2017-01-04.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Baxter-process print
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14581-R
Primary reference Number: 215526
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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