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Valentine card
Publisher: Kershaw, George
An embossed border of a design with lyres, horns and sheets of music on quarto-sized ivory laid paper. At the centre, a hand-coloured lithographed border of a scrolling design and scene of a couple holding hands across a countryside stile, a church in the background. A lithographed verse below: "Dear Girl the hand I fondly press'd / Tho' trembling still was not withdrawn. ...". G. KERSHAW / LONDON, embossed at lower left and right. An inscription in graphite on the album leaf: "G. Kershaw". Similar inscriptions, probably in the same hand, mainly transcribing maker details, are found elsewhere on the leaves of this album and also throughout album P.14344-R. These inscriptions were made by Miss Catherine Parsons who was a close friend of Glaisher towards the end of his life and undertook to arrange and mount his valentine collection into albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond. See letters from Glaisher to Parsons in the Fitzwilliam Museum archive. Watermark: EXTRA SUPERFINE / [...].
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14346-R-27
Primary reference Number: 214413
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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