Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Silver and white embossed lace-paper panel of a design of roses and latticework which is affixed to a plain white wove back paper with paper springs, but which are now all pasted down. A central window with scalloped edges features rose garlands stretching across the window at upper left and right and lower left and right which would originally have been rendered three-dimensional when the upper layer was 'raised' on the paper springs. At the centre of the window and mounted onto the back paper which is hand-coloured as blue sky and yellow dawn/sunset, is a collaged wreath of cut-paper green leaves, with gilt detail, decorated with hand-coloured and glazed paper apples, red rose buds and blue flowers. Inside the wreath is a hand-coloured and embossed paper dove carrying a silver paper envelope in its beak. Such envelopes would usually contain a hand-written or printed motto, but this one is blank. Affixed at lower centre is a large paper scroll with details lithographed in gold ink bears a motto lithographed in blue ink: 'Affections Offering'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14418-R-22
Primary reference Number: 215370
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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