Valentine

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	UK (made)

Valentine's card, with a handwritten message and postmark.

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Categories	Romance Greeting Cards
Object type	Valentine
Materials and techniques	Etching and stipple, coloured by hand Paper Etching Stipple
Brief description	Valentine sent by Lord Goderich to his nurse Mrs Plant, postmarked 1834
Physical description	Valentine's card, with a handwritten message and postmark.
Dimensions	Height: 7.375in Width: 9in Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Marks and inscriptions	My dear Mrs. Plant, while you are asleep / I write your Valentine. / I hope you will remain quite well / as many years as I can tell / Goderich / Feb^r. 14^th 1834.
Credit line	Given by Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson
Subject depicted	Valentines
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1485-1929

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1025295/valentine-unknown/

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