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Love: P.14417-R-29

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Love
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

White embossed paper with shaped edges is overlaid with a silver, embossed lace-paper frame mounted on paper springs and affixed with identical flower scraps at each corner. A smaller frame of silver lace-paper is mounted at the centre on paper springs and backed with a needlework panel embroidered with title and verse: 'LOVE / THE BLOSSOM IN THE / BOWERS MY LOVE! / SEND PERFUME ON THE BREEZE, / BUT THERE ARE / OTHER FLOWERS MY LOVE / WITH SCENTS AS RICH AS THESE: / THE FRAGRANCE I / WOULD SEEK / THY SMILING LIPS STILL BEAR; / AND WHEN I SEE THY / BLUSHING CHEEK / I FIND MY ROSES THERE'. A yellow silk tassel is attached to the edge of the central panel. 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
Embroidery
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14417-R-29
Primary reference Number: 215258

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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