Communion Card
1860s (made)
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Greeting card, purple marbled paper with a young girl in a communion dress holding a rosary, a prayer book, and a candle applied on the top, the figure with hand-coloured lithographed face and hands and dressed in applied white gauze/muslin to create her dress and veil. Set in a silver-paper lace frame with muslin curtains.
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Materials and techniques | marbled paper, embossed silver-paper lace, hand-coloured lithography, muslin and silk, cotton collage. |
Brief description | Unknown. First Communion themed Greeting card. French, 1860s. |
Physical description | Greeting card, purple marbled paper with a young girl in a communion dress holding a rosary, a prayer book, and a candle applied on the top, the figure with hand-coloured lithographed face and hands and dressed in applied white gauze/muslin to create her dress and veil. Set in a silver-paper lace frame with muslin curtains. |
Credit line | Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little |
Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963 |
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Accession number | E.2317-1953 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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