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Messenger of Love Valentine card
Printmaker:
Momberger, William
Publisher:
Mansell, Joseph
A valentine of white lace-paper with a central oval panel onto which is pasted an embossed, die-cut chromolithograph of a winged Cupid/putto offering a posy of pink roses to a female putto who wears a crown of blue flowers. The figures are surrrounded by flowers. Flower scraps are affixed at upper centre and lower centre, the latter with the motto: 'CONFIDENCE'. Pasted onto the inside right-hand page is a chromolithograph on a rectangle of white wove paper, which has been trimmed. A large lithographed scroll contains a title and verse printed in blue ink: 'MESSENGER OF LOVE / Haste, messenger of love, and fly / Unto the one that holds my / heart, / And this reply unto her sigh, / Oh! tenderly impart. / "I know no mortal but her / And she no fonder worshipper.".' Imagery, including Cupid catching a fish on a line from the sea, flowers, blue ribbons and a pair of doves surround the scroll. A printed signature is at lower right: 'MOMBERGER DEL'. An embossed stamp at lower centre of the central oval panel on the recto: 'MANSELL'. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below P.14417-R-59, '4/=' is probably a transcription of the price found on the handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R where P.14417-R-59 is listed towards the end of the first sheet: 'Messenger of Love 4-0'. Glaisher bought many valentines from R.S. Frampton, especially between 1923 and 1925. P.14417-R-59 is listed with two other cards from album P.14417-R (P.14417-R-62 and P.14417-R-96), although much of the Frampton MS relates to cards that are contained in album P.14416-R. For the Frampton MS, see P.14416-R-L1.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1850
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Circa
1870
Accession number: P.14417-R-59
Primary reference Number: 215288
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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