Title:
Happy is her most truly so for whom you heart does beat : a wife is so modest and so fair must render bliss complete.
Published / Created:

Great Britain : publisher not identified, mid-19th century.

Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1866.V3 .C6+ no. 13 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:14881740
Classification:
Prints
Notes:

Valentine card. Cream paper valentine, with embossed and cut paper, mounted on green paper. Cobweb style, a radiating cut-paper lattice-work, is surrounded by floral motifs. The cobweb, when lifted reveals an image of a cupid. Botanical illustration with a decorative scrap of doves.Text written in blue ink. Damaged at top: portion of cut paper missing.

Subject Terms:
Valentines -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:
Ephemera. | Valentines. | Botanical illustrations | Embossed papers. | Cobwebs (Paperwork). | Cut-paper works. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850. | Scraps. | Doves.