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Valentine card: P.14619-R

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

White embossed paper (as lace) mounted with cuttings of lilac and silver embossed lace-paper arranged in a 'frame' around a central oval window with a rice-paper blind mounted with flower scraps (one on a paper spring) and cut-paper embossed leaves and a lilac paper ornament of putti with garlands. A motto printed onto a paper flaming heart at lower centre: 'Joy of / my / heart'. A small scrap of a winged putto with a dove is affixed at upper centre. The back paper is missing. Remnants of pink paper adhered to the verso indicate that the valentine was previously mounted.

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.14619-R
Primary reference Number: 215579
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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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