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Valentine card: P.14414-R-11

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Mansell, Joseph

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Description

Large 4to-size white lace-paper with central panel decorated with hand-coloured cut-paper pink roses and forget-me-nots with additional, hand-painted leaves and tendrils. A hand-drawn mirror at the centre with hand-painted 'glass' surface which, if held to the light, contains a large, hand-drawn bird. The bird is drawn on a circular piece of paper which is affixed to the verso of the paper. A comic verse in black ink has been written below the mirror by the sender: 'While blushes deep bespread my cheek / And modesty doth almost stay my hand / oh let any pen my true thoughts speak / And listen with thy look so bland / I love thee with a passion nothing can assuage / Naught can alter but to be possessd / of thee dear stuffed with onion / and with sage / Then with what rapture would I rush / unto thy breast / X'. MANSELL stamped at lower centre. Hand-written 'L' in graphite at the top right of the right-hand inside page. 'Mansell' written in graphite onto the album leaf below.

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 1870

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Watercolour
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14414-R-11
Primary reference Number: 215002
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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