Valentine
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Within an embossed cut-paper frame with stylized floral decorations is a floral wreath of colored cut-paper, and paint additions, with a cupid holding a heart. Above is written (in blue ink): "In sweetest dreams thy lovely form I view/Accept this token of my love for you."
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- ca. 1840-1850
- Accession Number
- 1931-94-74
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Greeting card
- Type
- Greeting card
- Medium
- Colored and painted embossed cut-paper
- Dimensions
- 19.8 × 12.7 cm (7 13/16 in. × 5 in.)
- used in
- United States
- made in
- Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1931-94-74
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq41d1550b3-86d1-494c-a4ae-11907b4a0af0
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