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Valentine card: P.14343-R-109

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Windsor & Sons

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Description

A single leaf of pink embossed paper with an arched top and a lace-paper border of leaves and flowers with gilded detail. Affixed at the centre is a Baxter process print of a young boy wearing a green tudor-style tunic offering flowers to a girl in a pink costume sitting on a chair. The image is known as 'Presenting the Posy' and was produced by Baxter licensee, Joseph Mansell. The paper is printed with the message: "To my dear / little / favourite / from your / loving ..." and then hand-written in black ink, "Auntie". WINDSOR blind-embossed above the border at lower left. See _A Pictorial Catalogue of Joseph Mansell's Baxter Process Prints_, Compiled by Michael Martin, Brian Lawrence & Roger Smith for The New Baxter Society, 2006, Sheet 28 Children, reproduced no. 182, p. 51.

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
1840 - 1860

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Baxter-process print

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Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14343-R-109
Primary reference Number: 214175

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

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

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