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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White wove paper with an embossed border at upper centre containing a window cut into the paper which is backed with rice-paper and mounted with a silver paper ornament of a dove bearing a letter surrounded by hand-drawn radiating lines in blue ink. The window has a hand-drawn border around the outside in blue ink. At the centre of the paper below is a hand-drawn, heart-shaped garland with red ink stems and stencilled leaves in green paint and applied felt flowers with hand-drawn details and yellow gouache centres. The paper has a hand-drawn outer border in blue ink of stems and tendrils. The interior is blank. The hand-drawn elements and rice-paper panel with dove ornament are also seen on a similar card which is mounted beside this one on the same album leaf. See P.14414-R-63.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1830
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Circa
1840
Accession number: P.14414-R-62
Primary reference Number: 215053
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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