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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White wove paper with a lilac printed edge (landscape orientation) mounted with a smaller frame of silvered lace-paper affixed with paper springs and decorated with flower scraps at centre left and right and a collage at upper centre of white satin leaves and embossed scrap of a ship on the sea with the motto: 'DO / EMBARK / WITH ME'. A 'raised' panel at the centre comprising of two layers; an oval-shaped embossed chromolithographed scrap of two peasant women in a rural scene with Cupid, bordered with a garland of flowers and fruits affixed with paper springs to a silver lace-paper framed oval (piece missing at left side) affixed with paper springs to the white wove front paper. A hand-written inscription on the verso is visible through the inside page, but illegible.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1860
-
Circa
1880
Accession number: P.14413-R-75
Primary reference Number: 214924
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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