Printed Ephemera — 1841-1860
Forget me not
Handfinished Valentine's card comprising a top sheet of white lace paper elaborately embossed and gilded with flowers, a fruit basket, musical instruments, flags and two cupid figures flanking a central oval panel of white rice paper. Applied to the panel a small white, embossed paper figure of cupid holding aloft a scroll embossed 'Forget me not'. Below are two applied paper peaches flanked by foliage handpainted directly onto the panel.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 34.170/756
- Object name:
- Forget me not
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- King, Jonathan
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- Related places:
17 Wilderness Row, Clerkenwell, London [Islington], Islington
- Production date:
- 1841-1860
- Material:
paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 134 mm, W 92 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:
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- License this image:
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