Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Lithograph with hand-colouring on 4to-size white wove paper with a lace-paper border. A flower bouquet of pink carnations, bluebells and forget-me-nots are mounted at the centre and cut into a 'cobweb' device. A silk thread lifts to reveal a hand-coloured lithograph of a church. A silver tinsel anchor at lower centre and decorative silver tinsel bosses with urns at lower left and right. Handwritten inscriptions in black ink at upper and lower centre, presumably written by the sender: "I love! yes, I love, / Most sincerely, 'tis true / But I'll strive to love more, / when I strive to love you." Inscription on inside right-hand page: "Sent to / H.S. / 1846." Graphite inscription on inside right-hand page at upper right: "1/" [1 shilling]. The card had been folded twice.
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 1846
Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14410-R-45
Primary reference Number: 214620
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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