Printed Ephemera — 1851-1875
Card, valentine card
Sample valentine's card comprising two sheets of lace paper with applied decoration. The under sheet of lace paper incorporates an embossed floral wreath design surrounding a central panel of cream satin handpainted with an image of two deer. The top sheet of lace paper has an emboseed shell border design surrounding a central panel of purple silk decorated with applied garlands of metal tinsel holly leaves and red tinsel foil berries. In the centre is applied a silver paper dove, a wedding ring in its beak.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 34.170/1230
- Object name:
- card, valentine card
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- King, Jonathan
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- Production date:
- 1851-1875
- Material:
paper, ink, silk, cotton, metal
- Measurements/duration:
- H 238 mm, W 195 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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