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Valentine card
Publisher: Mansell, Joseph
White lace-paper with hand-drawn scalloped inner border in blue ink with central white satin panel within a collaged frame of silvered cut-paper garlands arranged in the shape of a heart. A cut-paper, hand-coloured fairy on a silk cloud at the centre of the panel. A verse hand-written in blue ink above and below: "May flowerets of Love, / Around thee, be twined. ...". At lower centre, a motto in red ink on a lace-paper scroll: "Love." [?MAN]SELL embossed at lower centre. Watermark: [....] D/ [..]52". The card has previously been folded lengthways twice. The inside pages are blank. The card is mounted onto a larger sheet of white wove paper. This valentine is very similar in style to another in the collection which is watermarked 1852. See P.14384-R. Another similar Mansell card is P.14342-R-79. 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. 41. A graphite number "41" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1852
Applied textile
Hand colouring
Collage
Accession number: P.14410-R-22
Primary reference Number: 214597
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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