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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
White lace-paper with cameo-embossed figures and an urn backed with a silk panel at lower centre. A collaged frame of lilac and gilt cut-paper pine fronds is arranged around the urn and affixed with a chromolithographed medallion with motto: 'Affection'. A window at upper centre backed with a silk panel hand-painted in gouache with a bunch of flowers and motto: 'Affections / Offering'. The white lace-paper has an adhered backing of pink tissue paper. The back paper is missing.
Given by Sir Stephen Gaselee, 1942
Method of acquisition: Given (1942) by Gaselee, Stephen
Applied textile
Collage
Gouache
Accession number: P.14618-R
Primary reference Number: 215578
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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