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Loose inside album P.14415-R, on the fifth leaf. A 4to-size front of white wove paper with an embossed border. At the centre is a rectangular panel of white lace-paper with a central diamond-shaped window bordered with silver, metallic paper and with a blind of dark green tissue paper mounted with a silver paper dove ornament bearing a branch surrounded by radiating strokes of gold ink. There are stencilled flower stems and leaves with applied paper flowers above and below the diamond-shaped window. Around the lace-paper panel are silver paper flower ornaments at the four corners and early lithography in gold ink: flower garlands to left and right and verse above and below. The text of the verse is missing in places due to weak impression: 'Why should I blush to own I love / Tis love that rules the [ .

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Cambridge

Title

Valentine card

Date

1830 - 1840

Accession number

P.14415-R-L4

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Work type

Print

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