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Valentine card: P.14411-R-39

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Windsor & Sons

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Description

A white lace-paper roundel mounted with a smaller sheet of white card cut into the shape of a tasselled curtain with gilt embossed detailing. "WINDSOR" is stamped at lower centre. A silvered and embossed cut-paper design of putti supporting a lattice-work silver rose bowl hung with garlands is mounted with paper springs. A collage of cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers and foliage is arranged above the bowl and glittered fabric leaves affixed to left and right. A printed verse within a cut-paper medallion is affixed onto the lace-paper roundel at lower centre: "True love is like a Gordian knot / Which angel hands have tied; / The heavenly skill its texture wrought / Who shall its folds divide?" There is no back sheet and the lace-paper is adhered directly to the album leaf.

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
1840 - 1860

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14411-R-39
Primary reference Number: 214669

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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