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Valentine card: P.14414-R-38

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A small, white lace-paper front mounted directly onto the album leaf. A central circular window is backed with pink silk and mounted with a white embossed paper ornament of Cupid/putti riding a bird and holding a letter in his right hand. The lace-paper is mounted at lower centre with a collage of blue, green and yellow tissue paper leaves and silver tinsel leaves with central cut-paper hand-coloured blue flower. A bronze tinsel bow is affixed at lower centre and a silver tinsel dove holding a letter in its beak at upper centre. A paper scroll with a flower design lithographed in gold ink is printed with the motto: 'I AM THINE FOR EVER.'.

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
Production date: circa AD 1860

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14414-R-38
Primary reference Number: 215029
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 Last processed: Tuesday 29 July 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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