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Valentine card: P.14408-R

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Windsor & Sons

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Description

Small circular albumen print of head and shoulders of a lady with long brown hair (circa 1840s) within cut-paper frame of blue flowers mounted on gilded die-cut and lace-paper 'wings' which open with dark blue ribbon ties. Inside is a perfume-sachet (cotton wool which would have been soaked in perfume visible inside) mounted with a chromolithograph of flowers and wooden baroque-style frame at the centre of which is a silk panel printed with a verse: "TO My Beloved / By the sun above us / shining, / By the stars that light / the sea / By all the hopes my / heart entwining / That heart is ever true / to thee.". WINDSOR stamped on the verso (left edge). 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. 50.

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 1870

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Albumen print
Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14408-R
Primary reference Number: 214573

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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