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Greetings Card

1860s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Greeting card, silver paper lace with a figure showing a woman or girl in a communion or wedding dress, holding a prayer book and a wand. The figure dressed in paper lace and applied silk fabric and ribbons, her face and hands lithographed and cut out and applied to the card.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph, silver-paper, paper lace, silk, ribbon.
Brief description
Unknown. A communion or wedding themed greeting card, probably French, 1860s.
Physical description
Greeting card, silver paper lace with a figure showing a woman or girl in a communion or wedding dress, holding a prayer book and a wand. The figure dressed in paper lace and applied silk fabric and ribbons, her face and hands lithographed and cut out and applied to the card.
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
Collection
Accession number
E.2316-1953

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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