Greetings Card

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Artist/Maker	Marcus Ward (publisher) Unknown (artist)
Place of origin	England (made)

New Year Card. Colour lithograph. A boy crowning a May Queen with another girl and a May Tree on a gilt ground, with ornamental border lettered ‘WELCOME NEW YEAR, WELCOME MAY! WE’LL CROWN THE FLORA’S QUEEN TODAY!’

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Category	Greeting Cards
Object type	Greetings card
Materials and techniques	printer's ink, paper, colour lithography Paper Printer's Ink Colour Lithography
Brief description	Published by Marcus Ward & Co.: New Year card, 'WELCOME NEW YEAR, WELCOME MAY! WE'LL CROWN THE FLORA'S QUEEN TODAY', colour lithograph, c.1875
Physical description	New Year Card. Colour lithograph. A boy crowning a May Queen with another girl and a May Tree on a gilt ground, with ornamental border lettered ‘WELCOME NEW YEAR, WELCOME MAY! WE’LL CROWN THE FLORA’S QUEEN TODAY!’
Dimensions	When folded height: 8.5cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971) Card only width: 12cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971)
Marks and inscriptions	WELCOME NEW YEAR, WELCOME MAY! WE’LL CROWN THE FLORA’S QUEEN TODAY! (Lettered as part of design)
Credit line	Acquired from the collection of the late Estella Canziani in 1970.
Association	Canziani
Bibliographic reference	Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1970
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.3:20-1971

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1040344/greetings-card-unknown/

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