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I Love Thee: P.14417-R-64

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

I Love Thee
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A valentine front paper of embossed gilt lace-paper with rounded corners and with a central oval of silk pasted to a panel of gilt-lace paper which is attached at the left edge to the centre. The silk is printed with a title and verse in black ink: 'I Love Thee. / Words all too feeble, to picture, / The adoration that floods my soul / When I but gaze on thee!'. A small, die-cut chromolithograph of a bird is affixed to the panel at centre right. The panel lifts up to reveal a second panel of white silk which backs the central window of the front paper and which is hand-painted with forget-me-nots and a butterfly. The front paper is affixed with paper springs to a secondary support of white lace-paper, which is pasted to a tertiary support of pale yellow wove paper. No. 58 employs the same front paper design of embossed, gilt lace-paper.

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-64
Primary reference Number: 215293

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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