Printed Ephemera — 1841-1869
I love but thee
Valentine's card comprising a top sheet of white and gilded lace paper with embossed flower design surrounding a central roundel. The roundel comprises a panel of pink cotton net gauze with applied decoration of a pink paper flower and two cotton leaves. Above the roundel is an integral central cartouche with cameo embossed gilded image of three cupid figures reading a white letter. Inside is handwritten 'I love but thee'. This shows through the cotton gauze panel when the card is closed.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 34.170/676
- Object name:
- I love but thee
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- King, Jonathan
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- Related events:
- Related places:
17 Wilderness Row, Clerkenwell, London [Islington], Islington
- Production date:
- 1841-1869
- Material:
paper, cotton, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 93 mm, W 71 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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