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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
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.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
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Circa
1850
Accession number: P.14417-R-93
Primary reference Number: 215322
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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