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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White lace-paper with central window covered with a yellow (or yellowed) gauze blind mounted with an elaborate collage 'corsage' of real feathers of varying sizes and colours (blue and black striped, red, irridescent purple, white) held in a 'clasp' of gilt cut-paper bow and silver cut-paper leaves. A hand-painted design of flowers and fruit on the back-sheet is visible through the blind, although the feather collage obscures the hand-written verses which aren't readable until the card is opened: "These light and glowing feathers show / No borrow'd artificial hue / Thus far beyond the limner's art / 'Tis inborn nature dyes the heart ...".
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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1870
Accession number: P.14411-R-28
Primary reference Number: 214658
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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