Greetings Card
1860s (made)
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| Accession number | E.2316-1953 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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