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Valentine card
Publisher: Meek, George
Lace-paper with a large central panel containing a collage of dried grasses, tissue paper leaves and cut-paper, hand-coloured leaves, flowers and birds (with varnish) around a cut-out nest painted in gouache and varnished. A hand-written verse in blue ink above and continued behind the collage: "This is affection's Tribute, Friendship's offering, / whose silent eloquence, more rich than words, / (underneath the tissue paper leaves) speaks of the giver's faith in absence / and says …" (the rest of the inscription obscured by the collage). MEEK blind-embossed at lower centre. The inside of the card is blank.
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
Hand colouring
Collage
Gouache
Accession number: P.14344-R-10
Primary reference Number: 214227
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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