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Valentine card: P.14344-R-13

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Mansell, Joseph

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Description

Embossed paper with gilded detailing; a design featuring a shepherdess with sheep, trees and flowers with some hand colouring. A central, oval-shaped window with a frame of embossed white roses and hand-painted leaves. The window is backed with a panel of pink net and a silver, embossed cupid on a cloud affixed to the interior leaf is seen through it. A hand-written inscription in blue ink above and below the central panel: "Constant to thee, / Be thou so to me". Inside the card there is a hand-written inscription in black ink: "To share thy joys to soothe thy care / with thee my every thought to share / with thee, in mutual love to live / is all I ask of Heaven to give. / ?L.S." A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below P.14344-R-13 states: "21 /= was paid for this valentine in 1925". The hand has been identified as belonging to Glaisher's friend, local Antiquarian, Catherine Parsons (1890-1956), who arranged and assembled his valentine albums in 1924. Her hand is seen elsewhere throughout album P.14344-R. Initials in graphite below are indecipherable. [ /= denotes shillings].

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 - 1870

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Watercolour
Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14344-R-13
Primary reference Number: 214230

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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