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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White paper front sheet with embossed border (as lace). A hand-coloured lithograph within the central panel; a couple just married stand before a church (gothic tracery on a façade seen behind), the female figure wears a veil. A verse printed above and below the image: "When first I saw thee, sweetest one / My heart did say I was undone / Unless thou didst my loverequite [sic] / And be my true love day and night."
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Probably
1840
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1850
Accession number: P.14346-R-44
Primary reference Number: 214430
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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