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Valentine card: P.14413-R-134

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Valentine card

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Description

White embossed front paper of all-over dog-rose design with incorporated lace-paper leaves and a central oval window. Three silver pins have been inserted into the paper in various places to attach it to the back paper. At the centre is a 'frame' of gilt and green embossed paper trees around a beige gauze blind over a hand-painted scene of trees with superimposed hand-coloured embossed male and female figures wearing medieval dress and carrying flower garlands. On the verso is a hand-written 'letter' from the sender in black ink: 'Please dear to hear this / in remembrance of / one who will never will [sic] deceive you / and wishes never / to be deceived ...'.

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 1850 - Circa 1860

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Watercolour
Applied textile
Hand colouring

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14413-R-134
Primary reference Number: 214983

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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