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Valentine card: P.14418-R-24

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Meek, George

Entities

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Description

Small 48mo-size valentine of white lace-paper with a pink slip paper and central oval window with a rice-paper blind which is hand-painted, probably aided by a stencil, with a design of a violet and pink rose. A square of white paper affixed at lower centre bears a lithographed motto in blue ink: 'My Heart / with love / beats but / for thee'. The front paper is adhered to the back paper. 'MEEK' stamped along the spine at lower left. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf with directional stroke towards P.14418-R-24: 'Given to me by Lally'. The hand is unknown.

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

Watercolour
Lithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-24
Primary reference Number: 215372
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Monday 29 May 2017 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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