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To My Love: P.14417-R-99

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

To My Love
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Mullord Bros.

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Description

White embossed paper with shaped edges decorated with collages of white satin leaves and scraps (blue flower and flaming hearts) at upper and lower centre. A smaller panel of white lace-paper with rounded corners and an oval window is mounted on paper springs at the centre. The oval window contains a silk panel which is printed in purple ink with a verse: 'TO MY LOVE / My love's like the / daffy-down-dilly, / White as the sun, fair / as the lily. / Heigh-ho! how I do / love thee! / I do love thee as the lambs / Are beloved of their dams; / How blest were I if / thou would'st / prove me!'. A second, smaller 'frame' of silver lace-paper is mounted on paper springs around the silk panel. 'MULLORD' is stamped at the centre (visible from the verso). The interior is blank. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '3 for 12 /= [12 shillings]'. This either relates to an inscription found on the verso of the card prior to mounting, or is transcribed from a list of valentines bought by Glaisher from a dealer, like that sent to Glaisher by second-hand book dealer, R.S. Frampton (See P.14416-R-L1). P.14417-R-98 is mounted onto the previous leaf in the album P.14417-R and is accompanied by the same inscription and therefore similarly identifed as one of three valentines that were bought for 12 shillings.

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 1870 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14417-R-99
Primary reference Number: 215328
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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