Printed Ephemera — 1810-1838
Card, valentine card
Handfinished Valentine's card with cream lace paper border embossed with flower and vase design and central rectangular shaped panel with the handwritten message: 'Beauty youth and endless Spring dwell upon thy rosy wing'. Applied to the panel a embossed paper arrangement of flowers, dried grasses, a bird's nest and a bird. Part of the applied decoration flaps down to reveal a continuation of the handwritten message.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 34.170/404
- Object name:
- card, valentine card
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Dobbs
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- Production date:
- 1810-1838
- Material:
paper, ink, grass
- Measurements/duration:
- H 194 mm, W 122 mm
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 80%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
- —
- Creative commons usage:
- —
- License this image:
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