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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A valentine front of white lace-paper with a central window backed with a panel of peach silk. The panel is mounted with leaves and flowers of white lace-paper, white cut-paper foliage and lithographed cut-paper birds. Additional leaves and a verse are painted in white gouache: 'Constant / and true / to thee; My Comfort and / my Joy'. A silver paper love-knot ornament affixed at lower centre and a paper 'book' with gilt lithographed detail and hand-painted design of violets on the left page, and hand-written motto in blue ink on the right: 'A / Love / Token'. The front is affixed to a folded sheet of thin, coated paper. A price written in graphite on the verso: '4/6 [4 shillings and six pence]'. The interior is blank. P.14588-R was contained along with seven other valentines inside a brown envelope addressed on the recto to, 'Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, England', a return address given at upper left: 'From / ?L[Z?].M. Franklin / 104 West 39th St[reet] / Baltimore'. Glaisher's friend, the American mathematician, Professor William Woolsey Johnson (1841-1927) lived in Baltimore and Glaisher visited him and his wife on many occasions from the 1880s up to 1916. L.M. or Z.M. Franklin is unknown and may have been an art dealer or second-hand book-seller whom Glaisher met during his trips to Baltimore. Julia Poole has documented Glaisher's friendship with Johnson and his trips to America. See Poole's essay, 'Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, The making of a great collection', in Michael Archer, _Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum_ (2013), p. xvi and n. 25, p. xxvi. See record P.14583-R for further details.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14588-R
Primary reference Number: 215533
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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