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Valentine card: P.14420-R.f23r

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Current Location: In storage

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A valentine front of white lace-paper, which is set off by a pale pink slip paper behind. Mounted at the centre is a smaller panel of embossed lace-paper with a design of scallop shells, flower garlands and Cupid at upper centre. The panel and the Cupid are lightly hand coloured. An oval panel at the centre is handpainted with a design of flower stems and leaves with additional cut-paper handcoloured flower heads. A cut-paper scroll with gold painted edge bears a handwritten message in blue ink: 'An Important question'. The outer edge of the panel has been cut around to create a flap which lifts up with a strip of blue ribbon to reveal a handwritten verse in blue ink: 'Dearest [surrounded with a gold tinsel garland and hand-drawn radiating gold lines] / I have a word to say to you / O hear me out what'eer you do , / Will you be my wedded Wife, / And shed a halo o'er my life / Do not refuse I now intreat [sic] / Be mine, my own true love / My sweet, my chosen one'. The back paper is missing. An initial 'E' is written in graphite on the album leaf below the valentine. The names 'Edith' and 'Netty' are written into the album. These names would probably account for the single initials of 'E' or 'N' written on the album leaves adjacent to a number of the valentines in the album. The initials presumably indicate either from whom they were received or to whom they were sent.

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
Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14420-R.f23r
Primary reference Number: 215427

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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