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Belfry Whispers of a Wedding Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White wove paper with a lace-paper border. A collage of embossed silver paper bell ornaments and cut-paper ivy leaves arranged at the centre. A lithographed title in blue ink at upper centre: 'Belfry / Whispers of a Wedding'. Lithographed verse in blue ink printed below each silver bell: From upper left to lower right: 'O I must tune my sweetest air; Yes for such a goodly pair; / The Birds will sing their choicest lay; To greet them on life's flowery / way; / When dear Pal shall I begin? Immediately he's placed the / Ring; / Joyful be our peal that day; And for their happiness we'll / pray'. A lithographed and hand-coloured cut-paper robin is affixed at lower centre with 'speech' lithographed in red ink above it: 'Hush! they'll soon be here'. The front paper is adhered to the back paper. Although the paper is unstamped, this valentine is comparable in style to those produced by Henry Dobbs (as Dobbs, Kidd & Co.) during the 1860s.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1860
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Circa
1870
Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14414-R-72
Primary reference Number: 215063
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: 869
Accession Number: M.116-1961
Accession Number: PER.M.304-1923
Accession Number: 31.I.4-167
£30.00
£30.00
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