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Valentine card
Publisher: Meek, George
Embossed lace-paper mounted onto backing paper with paper springs. The lace-paper is decorated with glazed scraps of cut-paper flowers in gilded urns and a cartouche containing a printed verse at upper centre: 'Fresh garlands of flowers / for you dear I'll weave / If this gift of affection / you fondly receive.'. A colour lithograph of a girl holding a posy of flowers in a landscape. 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
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Circa
1900
Accession number: P.14343-R-77
Primary reference Number: 214143
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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