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The Emblem of Love Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
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.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1870
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Circa
1880
Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14417-R-103
Primary reference Number: 215332
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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