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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A home-made valentine consisting of a large 8vo sheet of pink wove paper mounted with several cut-outs of hand-coloured lithographs of insects, including moths, butterflies, bees, beetles and mayflies, which are pasted onto the paper in a circular arrangement. A panel of white wove paper with a shaped edge, hand-coloured in green is affixed at the centre. A window cut into the panel at the centre has a gauze blind which is mounted with a gold paper cornucopia filled with cut-paper coloured leaves and flowers. A decorative border of green and silver paper leaves and small red foil ornaments as flowers/berries is arranged around the edge of the gauze blind. A verse is lithographed onto the panel in blue ink at upper and lower centre: 'Affection is a heavenly boon / Which cannot be bestowed to soon'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1850
Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14414-R-28
Primary reference Number: 215019
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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