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Valentine card: P.14342-R-25

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Titles

Valentine card

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Unknown

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Description

Silvered and white lace-paper with central, silk, heart-shaped flap bordered with lace-paper which lifts up with a silk ribbon to reveal a chromolithographic scene of sledging on a frozen pond. The heart-shaped flap is affixed with a die-cut, chromolithographic cherub's head in a garlanded roundel and a cut-paper, printed motto: 'I / LOVE/ TRUE / AND / FONDLY'. A small, embossed, gold tinsel 'mirror' with applied silk ribbon is affixed at upper centre. A collage of fabric, glittered leaves and artificial grass is affixed at lower centre to either side of a printed motto: 'THINE / AND THINE ONLY'. Inside is a handwritten poem with anonymous sign off as 'Well wisher', the verse dedication only partially accessible due to pasting of the front paper to the back at lower right): 'England / Thursday / 11th July / 1869 / Miss / Tis sweet to love / but sweeter [still] to be beloved again ... Well wisher'.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
Production date: 07-11 AD 1869

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Colour printing
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14342-R-25
Primary reference Number: 206505

Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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