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Valentine card
Publisher: Mansell, Joseph
A 32mo-size card of white wove paper with a shaped, lace-paper border and hand-coloured edges in red. MANSELL embossed at lower centre. At the centre is a 'dressed' or 'paper-doll' valentine comprising a chromolithographic cut-out of a young blonde-haired girl holding a fan in her right hand and with pink roses in her hair and a pleated green striped silk skirt applied below. A chromolithograped motto at lower centre: FORGET ME NOT. The inside pages are blank. Hand-written marks in ink on the verso: "3?/5 [...]" This card was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 63.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1850
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1860
Applied textile
Chromolithography
Accession number: P.14400-R
Primary reference Number: 214565
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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