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The Emblem of Love: P.14417-R-103

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Emblem of Love
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

An ornate, 'raised' valentine of white, embossed paper (landscape orientation), overlaid on paper springs with gilt and white embossed lace-paper with a central window and two small windows to either side. The central window contains a panel of textured white paper with a letter-press verse printed in black ink: 'The / Emblem of Love. / There is a flower which oft / unheeded blows / Amidst the splendours of the / summer's ray, / And though this simple flower / no sweets disclose, / Yet would it tell thee all I wish / to say. / And when we're parted by the / foaming sea, / And thou art heedless what / may be my lot, / I'll send that flower, a mess /enter to thee, / And it shall whisper / thus - Forget me / not!'. The two side windows are overlaid with green linen leaves and scraps of a boy playing a trumpet (left) and a girl with ducklings (right). Pink and purple linen blossoms with wax centres are arranged around the central window at lower centre. The interior is blank. Mounted onto the same album leaf as a very similar valentine, P.14417-R-102. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf at lower right: '2 for 6 /= [6 shillings]'. This either relates to inscriptions found on the versos of the two cards mounted on this leaf prior to mounting (P.14417-R-102 and P.14417-R-103), 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). The inscription indicates that the two valentines were bought as a pair.

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-103
Primary reference Number: 215332

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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