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Loose inside album P.14346-R between nos. 13 and 14. A hand-coloured lithograph with a heavily embossed border on white wove paper. The edges of the paper are gilded. The embossed border features roses, butterflies and the accoutrements of Cupid - flaming torches with quiver and bow. A hand-coloured inner border of stylised shapes in the style of an illuminated manuscript part surrounds a hand-coloured vignette of a woman seated in an interior having a portrait of her love revealed to her by Cupid who draws back a red curtain. Printed verses below: "Love lifts the veil, and thus we see, / Prophetic happiness to thee, ...". The inside pages are blank. A partly abraded embossed stamp at lower left and lower right: G. KERSHAW / LONDON. From a series.
Title
Valentine card
Date
1840 - 1860
Accession number
P.14346-R-L10
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928