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Love: P.14417-R-24

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Love
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A small valentine of white embossed paper with shaped and scalloped edges. An overlaid white, lace-paper frame is mounted on paper springs around a central oval window which contains a silk panel printed with a title and verse: 'LOVE / The dearest wish my / heart can form / Beloved one for thee, / Is that thou may'st enjoy the bliss / Thy love bestows on me.'. There are chromolithographed flower scraps affixed at upper centre and lower left and right. The interior is blank.

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

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14417-R-24
Primary reference Number: 215253

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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