Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
An 8vo-size valentine with a silver and green embossed lace-paper front and central oval window with a white satin blind mounted with a novelty straw basket filled with real moss and embossed and hand-coloured paper apples and flowers. Two further garlands of embossed, hand-coloured paper flowers are arranged above and below the basket. The green and silver lace-paper front is adhered to the back paper. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf above: '1868', which is probably a transcription of a date found on the verso of the valentine prior to mounting into the album. The hand is probably that of Catherine Parsons (1890-1956), who mounted and arranged Glaisher's valentine albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1868
Applied textile
Hand colouring
Collage
Accession number: P.14418-R-45
Primary reference Number: 215393
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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