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Valentine card: P.14416-R-77

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Kershaw, George

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Description

A hand-coloured lithograph on 8vo-size white wove paper with an embossed border of a scallop shell design. An ornate escutcheon design with a central roundel containing an image of a lady in red and blue reading a letter, the envelope in her lap. Flowers (yellow and red striped tulips, blue morning glory flowers, pink roses etc.) spill out of the top of the escutcheon and around the lower edge. A verse is printed at upper and lower centre: 'I FEAR thy kisses. gentle maiden. / Thou needest not fear mine: / My spirit is too deeply laden / Ever to burthen thine. / I fear thy mien. thy tones. thy motion. / Thou needest not fear mine: / Innocent is the heart's devotion / With which I worship thine.'. The interior is blank. The front is adhered to the back at lower right. 'G. KERSHAW LONDON' stamped along the lower edge. Another design from the same series by Kershaw is mounted onto the adjacent leaf of album P.14416-R. See P.14416-R-76. This card is listed along with P.14416-R-76 in a handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1), the two bracketed together and priced as 'the 2 for 6/6'.

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 1830 - Circa 1840

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14416-R-77
Primary reference Number: 215222
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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