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Valentine card
Publisher: Kershaw, George
Loose inside album P.14415-R, on the fifth leaf. A 4to-size front of white wove paper with an embossed border. At the centre is a rectangular panel of white lace-paper with a central diamond-shaped window bordered with silver, metallic paper and with a blind of dark green tissue paper mounted with a silver paper dove ornament bearing a branch surrounded by radiating strokes of gold ink. There are stencilled flower stems and leaves with applied paper flowers above and below the diamond-shaped window. Around the lace-paper panel are silver paper flower ornaments at the four corners and early lithography in gold ink: flower garlands to left and right and verse above and below. The text of the verse is missing in places due to weak impression: 'Why should I blush to own I love / Tis love that rules the [ ...] / Why blush, to say, to all / That virtue holds my heart in thrall ...'. The poem is by Henry Kirke White (1785-1806). The back paper is missing. 'KERSHAW' is stamped at the lower right of the central lace-paper panel. Elements of P.14415-R-L4 are almost identical to those seen in other valentines which also demonstrate early lithography and are contained in album P.14414-R. See especially P.14414-R-89, which employs the same green tissue paper blind, dove ornament and radiating lines in addition to the stencilled stems, leaves and applied paper flowers.
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.14415-R-L4
Primary reference Number: 215142
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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