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Memory: P.14529-R

An image of Valentine card

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Memory
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

White lace-paper with filigree leaf and fuschia design. A white wove oval paper panel at the centre is mounted with a scrap of forget-me-nots which lifts up to reveal a printed verse below in purple ink: MEMORY / At Midnight hour I love / to think - On those most / dear, most far from me, - ...'. Lithographed message printed in purple ink around the panel: 'A PLEDGE OF MY AFFECTION'. The white lace-paper is without a back paper and is mounted onto a piece of pink paper. From the same series as P.14527-R.

Legal notes

Given by Sir Stephen Gaselee, 1942

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1942) by Gaselee, Stephen

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14529-R
Primary reference Number: 215474
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 6 May 2025 Last processed: Tuesday 29 July 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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