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Valentine card: P.14412-R-85

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Current Location: In storage

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Small 48mo playing-card-style 'men and flowers' themed comic valentine with a die-stamped 'lace' edge. A chromolithograph with rounded corners affixed to the centre of 'lace'-edged white card, features a miniature gentleman with Dundreary whiskers holding out a 'Note' with prices on it, two forget-me-not plants in the background dwarf the figure. A scrap affixed above with the motto: MY / DOVE. From a series featuring men with flowers or as hybrid flowers and one of seven mounted in album P.14412-R. P.14374-R and P.14361-R were also originally mounted here. The quality of the art-work in this series is high, although neither the artist nor the manufacturer are known. It is possible that this card was included in the envelope P.14412-R-L7, although the fact that it is mounted on the facing album leaf and kept separate from the eight other cards from the series, suggests more likely that it was not.

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 - 1850

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14412-R-85
Primary reference Number: 214809

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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