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Valentine card: P.14415-R-L5

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Kershaw, George

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Description

Loose inside album P.14415-R, on the ninth leaf. A large front of white wove paper with an embossed border (as lace) and a cut-paper, hand coloured lithograph of flowers and the remains of a 'cobweb' device around a blank trefoil shape at the centre. Within the trefoil shape is an applied roundel of white paper with a hand coloured lithograph of a heart crossed with Hymen's flaming torch and Cupid's bow and arrow with the motto below: 'United in Love'. The roundel would originally have only been revealed when the 'cobweb' was lifted up. A lithographed verse is printed above and below: 'Oh! Flowers, my love, are sweetest / In the Spring time of the year, / And my willing heart, may well impart, / A lay to one so dear ...'. 'G. KERSHAW' is stamped at lower centre. The back paper is missing. This is similar to other Kershaw 'cobweb' valentines contained in album P.14410-R. See P.14410-R-11 and P.14410-R-44.

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
Circa 1840 - Circa 1860

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14415-R-L5
Primary reference Number: 215143

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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