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Valentine card
A delicate front of silvered lace-paper in a design of lily of the valley flowers curved around from left and right to form a heart-shaped aperture at the centre. A cameo-embossed scene of Cupid and Hymen around a pudding with doves to left and right. A paper swag printed in silver ink with the verse: 'Ask not why I love thee / Why is heaven divine / I only know I cannot tell thee / But my heart is thine'. A blindstamp: 'WOOD' at lower right (just below the doves). Seen through the central aperture is a hand-coloured lithograph of a church which has been cut and pasted onto a watercolour background with a cut and pasted lace-paper frame (possibly concocted by the sender). A collage of real moss and fabric flowers are arranged below the lithograph inside the card, again possibly affixed by the sender of the valentine.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14342-R-41
Primary reference Number: 206521
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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