Valentine

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Object Details

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Within an embossed cut-paper frame with floral decorations is a circular peep-hole, covered by silk gauze, through which two birds in gilt are seen against a blue ground. Velvet cording and flowers of shirred silk around edges, and cupids at top of embossed gilt paper.

Credit Line

Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt

Date

ca. 1850

Accession Number

1931-94-73

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Object Name

Greeting card

Type

Greeting card

Medium

Embossed cut paper, with silk, velvet, and satin additions

Dimensions

20.2 × 13.2 cm (7 15/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

used in

USA

made in

Germany

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46cdad8ea-305c-40a5-b1a1-f188d67124db

Record ID

chndm_1931-94-73