On View
Not on viewHoliday Card
Dateca. 1881
Terms
- Greeting Cards
- Paper
Dimensions24.13 × 20.32 cm (9 1/2 × 8 in.)
MarkingsLabel on back, "Valentine of Elegant Eighties, about 1881."
Object numberPER0100K
DescriptionEmbossed paper valentine. At center, applied embossed paper circle, scalloped edges, painted border (gilt, pink, blue, green, yellow). Inside, chromolithograph image of a young man and woman in formal attire, sitting on an outside bench; he is leaning over to adjust a flower in her hair. A sticker above the image reads, "Your forever."
Object number: PH1057A
Object number: M1109F