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To My True Love: P.14349-R-39

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

To My True Love
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Marcus Ward & Co.

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Description

A postcard size valentine of white wove paper with embossed and scalloped edge bordering a chromolithograph of three nesting birds (chaffinch, bullfinch and blackbird) entwined with spring flowers (including bluebells and primroses) and two nests containing eggs. The design is set against a silver background with a verse by Sir Phillip Sydney inset on white at centre right: TO MY TRUE LOVE / My true Love hath my heart, and I have his. ... / SIR P. SYDNEY. MARCUS WARD & CO. printed at lower left. ENT. STA. HALL printed at lower right. An example of this card is in the collection of The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, who date it as 1887 (although without supporting references). See: http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15928coll4/id/167/rec/11.

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
Production date: circa AD 1887

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14349-R-39
Primary reference Number: 214515
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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