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Valentine card: P.14417-R-93

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Current Location: In storage

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A small valentine of white wove paper with an embossed design on the front paper. At the centre is a chromolithographed roundel featuring a continental-style scene of a woman sitting in a landscape with a basket of pink roses on her lap, a lake and turreted tower on the right. The lithograph is printed in a limited palette of colours: blue, yellow, green and pink. A paper lozenge with gilt border and motto is affixed at lower centre: 'I will / ever constant / prove.'. P.14417-R-93 is mounted on the same album leaf as two devotional valentines featuring representations of Saints; P.14417-R-94 and P.14417-R-95. Although not a devotional valentine, the style of the image employed in P.14417-R-93 is reminiscent of an early Renaissance painting of the Virgin in a landscape, and which would seem to indicate that the positioning of valentines in the albums was carefully choreographed.

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

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1840 - Circa 1850

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14417-R-93
Primary reference Number: 215322

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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