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Valentine card
Publisher: Kershaw, George
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.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
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Circa
1860
Accession number: P.14415-R-L5
Primary reference Number: 215143
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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