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Believe Me: P.14413-R-107

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Believe Me
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A small, 48mo-size 'raised' valentine comprising a top layer of lace-paper with central oval window, decorated with gilt embossed flowers in each corner and mounted with paper springs to a second layer of white embossed paper with shaped edges tinted blue. A large flower scrap is affixed over the central window and lifts up to reveal a letterpress verse printed on a circle of lilac paper with a crimped edge: 'BELIEVE ME / Lovely thou art, / ay lovely, / In spirit and in form; / A sunbeam glancing / o'er life's tears, / A rainbow through / the storm'. The second layer of embossed paper is decorated with scraps of violet garlands at upper and lower centre. The front paper is adhered to the back paper.

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 1870 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Letterpress
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14413-R-107
Primary reference Number: 214956

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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