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

Happy is her most truly so for whom you heart does beat , mid-19th century

Title(s):: 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
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Information
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/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.
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