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Valentine card: P.14418-R-25

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Silver and white embossed lace-paper overlaid on paper springs (now all stuck down) to a front of white lace-paper. Four 'cobweb' devices at upper left and right and lower left and right (all damaged) which, when lifted with the cotton threads, reveal chromolithographs of Cupid and putti positioned on clouds, Cupid (at upper left) with his quiver of arrows. A collage of green cut-paper leaves and hand-coloured flowers with a white and gilt embossed paper ornament of a fountain is mounted onto the central panel of the front paper and displayed through the shaped, central window of the silver and white lace-paper. A small scroll of pink paper with lithographed detail and motto in gold ink is affixed at lower centre: 'May / Happiness be ever Thine'. The front paper is adhered to the back paper.

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

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-25
Primary reference Number: 215373
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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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