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Hope Cottage Valentine card
Publisher: Mullord Bros.
Paper with an embossed border and scalloped edges tipped with blue. At upper centre is a varnished chalk-lithograph cut-out of a house, inscribed 'Hope Cottage' above the door and with coloured paper behind the windows. Real grasses are tucked behind the cottage to represent trees. Fabric leaves and a cut-out of a bird on a gate with the motto 'True love' below. A lithographed description of sale of estate as hand-written in blue ink below: 'Freehold / to be disposed of / by / private contract / lease a lifetime ... '. MULLORD BROS blind-embossed onto the paper at lower left.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1840
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1880
Accession number: P.14343-R-55
Primary reference Number: 214121
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Hope Cottage" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214121 Accessed: 2024-11-29 00:25:11
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