Valentine card: P.14418-R-30

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Meek, George

Entities

Valentine card

Categories

Print
Album

Description

White lace-paper (originally a double layer, but now pasted down), with a purple silk panel at lower centre mounted with a circular lace-paper frame containing a silver and white embossed paper Cupid with a collage of silver paper fern fronds. Below, at lower centre is a collage of white silk leaves and embossed paper leaves and embossed, chromolithographed flower scrap coated with varnish or glaze. Two small oval windows at upper centre contain chromolithographed flower sprays on silver paper. An embossed and gilt paper ornament of Cupid holding a flag with lithographed motto in red ink: 'Love and / Fidelity'. 'MEEK' is stamped along the spine at lower left. 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

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-30
Primary reference Number: 215378
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Monday 29 May 2017

Associated departments & institutions

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

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            University of Cambridge}}

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