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Valentine card
Publisher: Windsor & Sons
A valentine of a hand-coloured, cameo-embossed paper of a scene featuring trees, palms and a temple on the left and a couple wearing Greek drapery at lower centre. Blue and yellow birds sit in tree branches around them. An oval panel at the centre contains a hand-painted posy of flowers, including a passion flower and stencilled ivy leaves in gouache. A verse printed on a small square of paper in lithography of red ink with a gold border is affixed at upper centre: 'One kiss and then / good bye my love. / Since thou art anxious / to be free. / But nightly shall / I pray above, / That every blessing / wait on thee.'. 'WINDSOR' is stamped at lower centre. The interior is blank. A watermark: 'TOWGOOD / 1853'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1853
Watercolour
Hand colouring
Gouache
Accession number: P.14351-R
Primary reference Number: 215454
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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