Three-dimensional valentine card and box
Publisher: Unknown
A large, boxed, quarto-size, three-dimensional valentine of silver lace-paper with a large, three-dimensional bouquet of fabric flowers including lily-of-the-valley, roses, forget me nots, purple tinsel flowers, tinsel ivy leaves attached to metal rods and a gilt tinsel seed pod. An embossed, chromolithographed scrap of roses and printed motto: 'To / my little playmate'. The interior is blank. The valentine is contained inside a large white box (one side missing) with white lace-paper around the upper inside edge.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1880
Applied textile
Chromolithography
Accession number: P.14613-R
Primary reference Number: 215558
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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