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Valentine card: P.14413-R-95

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Mullord Bros.

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Description

A valentine designed for a female child. Cream wove paper with a narrow embossed and lace-paper border with scalloped edges. A tinted lithograph in green ink of an outdoor scene of trees and grass. A 'dressed' or 'paper-doll' valentine featuring a felt cut-out figure of a little girl dressed in a felt cut-out blue dress with red satin ribbon sash surmounted with an embossed chromolithograph of the head and shoulders of a young girl with long fair hair wearing a circlet of flowers on her head. A gilt-edged motto printed in purple ink at lower centre: 'FOR A / Good Little Girl'. 'MULLORD' is stamped at lower left. The front paper is pasted to the back paper. The same head is used on a similar example in the collection of the Museum of London (38.155/1) which is on J.T. Wood stamped paper which contains an inscription from a father to his daughter dated 1867.

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
Circa 1860 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Lithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14413-R-95
Primary reference Number: 214944
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 Last processed: Tuesday 29 July 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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