In Love’s boat
Ever with thee I
Could Float.
So reads this printed, hand-watercolored valentine which was made between 1840 and 1880 of card, paper-lace, fabrix appliqué. The work of an unknown artist and publisher, the card was bequeathed with other greeting cards to the V&A by Guy Tristram Little.
The scene of two lovers in the sort of gondola used for romantic boat rides in decorative lakes in parks is set off by two fabric-applied flaming hearts.
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| Card of watercolor, fabric and paperlace. 1840-1880 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
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