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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White lace-paper (the front sheet adhered to the back sheet, which has been trimmed unevenly) with a gilt and hand-coloured cameo-embossed lace-paper frame mounted on paper springs with figures of a female dancer and a male musician. A silver framed hand-written motto at lower centre: "Love in my heart / sits smiling / Life's sweetest hours / Beguiling". A gilt embossed inner frame around a net blind decorated with red tinsel twigs, embossed and chromolithographed Hymen and cut-paper female figure with blue linen skirt applied.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1850
-
1870
Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14411-R-16
Primary reference Number: 214646
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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