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Valentine card and envelope
Publisher: Kershaw, George
A valentine contained inside an envelope. The valentine has a gilt, cameo-embossed lace-paper front with a central oval window. The embossed design features a pair of lovers with dog and sheep seated at lower centre and another seated facing away from each other at upper centre. A Baxter-process print at the centre of a young girl wearing a straw bonnet trying a pair of spectacles on a dog. The print is composed of a combination of etching, stippling, aquatint and colour-block printing in red, yellow, blue, green and pink. The print is contained within a frame of embossed white paper foliage which is edged with silver foliage (this is revealed on the opening of the valentine). KERSHAW & SON is stamped along the spine at centre left. Inside, the Baxter-process print and frame are mounted onto the inside right-hand page and affixed below is a paper 'book' with gilt detail and printed in blue ink with the motto: 'A tribute of Love & sincere Affection'. An inscription in graphite is at upper centre: 'O ?A M 18'. The accompanying envelope is of white wove paper with an embossed border design on the recto and an embossed medallion containing Cupid and dove on the opening flap on the verso. A handwritten name and address in black ink on the recto: 'Miss Woolmer / 71 Warwick Square / Pimlico / London'. It is possible that this valentine relates to P.14425-R, which is inscribed: 'To my uncle J.B. Woolmer / Feb. 14th 1859.'. P.14581-R is a similar valentine by Kershaw, featuring a Baxter-process print of a girl with a cat, which is also contained within an envelope addressed to the same recipient. It is thought that both prints are probably from a series of images of children or young girls with pets produced by Baxter licensee, Joseph Mansell. See e-mail correspondence between Rebecca Virag and Roger Smith on behalf of the New Baxter Society, 2017-01-04.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Baxter-process print
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14580-R
Primary reference Number: 215525
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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