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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White embossed lace-paper with design of roses and leaves and central oval-shaped panel mounted with a collage of silk and felt flowers inside a woven basket of brown silk. There are small gold ornaments at the centres of four of the flowers. At the lower centre of the panel is a lithographed motto in French in gold ink: 'DOUX SOUVENIR / Depose'. Surrounding the central panel is a broad circular frame of blue tissue paper leaves with embossed and coloured cut-paper leaves, flowers and fruit. The front paper is adhered to the back paper.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1850
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Circa
1860
Applied textile
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14414-R-25
Primary reference Number: 215016
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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