Valentine Card, by Joseph Mansell

An image of Valentine Card. Mansell, Joseph, publisher (British, 1803-1874). 8vo-size collage of white silk leaves, flower swags on embossed, silvered paper, hand-coloured, cut-paper figures on gauze clouds and turquoise and pearl beads mounted on a white silk panel edged with gilded lace paper. The card has been cut from its backing sheet and is laid down on a piece of heavy, cream card which has been cut down from a larger piece. Lace-paper medallions at upper and lower centre with hand-written verse and motto in blue ink: 'Time cannot change or sever / A heart that's thine for ever'; 'Love'. On the verso, written in graphite in a modern hand onto the card mount are dimensions as follows: '10 6/10 x 8 1/10 / 1 1/2 all round'. Another faint graphite inscription: '2 wm / 1852'. 1870-1880.

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Valentine Card. Mansell, Joseph, publisher (British, 1803-1874). 8vo-size collage of white silk leaves, flower swags on embossed, silvered paper, hand-coloured, cut-paper figures on gauze clouds and turquoise and pearl beads mounted on a white silk panel edged with gilded lace paper. The card has been cut from its backing sheet and is laid down on a piece of heavy, cream card which has been cut down from a larger piece. Lace-paper medallions at upper and lower centre with hand-written verse and motto in blue ink: 'Time cannot change or sever / A heart that's thine for ever'; 'Love'. On the verso, written in graphite in a modern hand onto the card mount are dimensions as follows: '10 6/10 x 8 1/10 / 1 1/2 all round'. Another faint graphite inscription: '2 wm / 1852'. 1870-1880.

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Accession Number: P.14384-R
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 842 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 338.81kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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19th Century applied textile beaded beads British School card cherubs collage embossed English Fitz_PDP floral flowers garlands gilded hand coloured Joseph Mansell lace lace paper love paper poets print silk swags textile valentine card valentines card verses Victorian

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