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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A stencilled border of gold, green and red paint of a design featuring roses, urns, Cupids, birds, lyres and interlocking rings and which is out of register throughout, on 4to-sized white wove paper. At the centre is a hand-coloured, lithographed scene of a couple in a boat being pulled along by two blue birds. Steps lead to a garden scene above with a stone temple into which a door is cut from the paper which opens to reveal Cupid dressed as a solider (this image is pasted to the verso of the front page). A printed verse below: "Here's Cupid in his Sentry Box / And what has placed him there? / To guard the heart of her I love / A Maiden good as fair. ...". The paper is badly stained.
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
1850
Accession number: P.14346-R-21
Primary reference Number: 214407
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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