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The Blessing: P.14417-R-101

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Blessing
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A very small valentine of white wove paper with an embossed lace-paper border of roses and leaves. A letterpress verse at lower centre: 'THE BLESSING. / May the blessing of God ever rest / on thy head, / And the sun of his favour brightly / shed / A light on thy path through this / dark vale of tears, / His love be thy comfort, allaying / thy fears.'. Above is a small rectangular lithograph of flowers with silver background inside an embossed border. The interior is blank.

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

Letterpress
Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14417-R-101
Primary reference Number: 215330

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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