Valentine card: P.14418-R-3

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

Entities

• Valentine card

Categories

• Print
• Album

Description

White embossed lace-paper of a design of roses and leaves. At the centre, an embossed gilt roundel with flower design overlays a roundel of paper which is hand-coloured pink. A collage of hand-coloured and cut-paper flowers and leaves is arranged at lower and upper centre. At lower centre, two stems of cut-paper ivy leaves flank a silver tinsel roundel with bronze tinsel flower centre. At upper centre is a cut-paper swag with lithographed detail and verse in blue ink: 'Ask not why it is, I love thee / Why is Heaven divine / I only know, I cannot tell thee / But my heart is thine'. The front paper is adhered to the back. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf above: '1861'. This is probably a transcription of a date found on the verso of the valentine prior to mounting into the album. The hand is unknown, but is the same as seen above no. 1 in the same album.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928