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Valentine card
Publisher: Meek, George
Paper with an embossed border and hand colouring in watercolour of embossed flower-detailing in the corners. A chalk lithographed church with glazing, cut-out and affixed to the paper at the centre with scraps of a butterfly and dove. A collage of dyed grasses and paper scraps below the church and a gilt lace-paper frame around a printed verse (as hand-written): 'I love thee / Yes, I love thee well / As heart can wish, or / tongue can tell'. MEEK blind-embossed onto the paper at lower right.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
-
Circa
1900
Chalk lithography
Hand colouring
Collage
Accession number: P.14343-R-53
Primary reference Number: 214119
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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