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Absent But Not Forgotten Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A mourning or 'Adieu' valentine. A small 64mo-size card of white lace-paper with corners hand-coloured in turquoise and pink. A central rectangular window is backed with white silk and printed with a letterpress title and verse in blue ink: 'Absent but not Forgotten [in gothic script] / You are absent, yet I often feel / Your presence to my mind as real, / As when your arm around me twined, / And your voice spake in accents kind. / I gaze upon the vacant chair, / And oh! how often you seem there; / The flowers you so fondly loved, / My sorrow many a time hath soothed. / And when before His throne my heart I bare, / Thy name is ever mingl'd with my prayer.'. The card is not fully adhered to the album leaf and can be lifted up to reveal a date written in ink on the verso at upper right: '1854'. This inscription is transcribed in graphite onto the album leaf below the card.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1854
Accession number: P.14417-R-2
Primary reference Number: 215231
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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