Valentine's Day Card
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Unknown Artist. Valentine's Day Card, ca. 1830–1835. Collage of paper and fabric with printed and ink inscriptions, folded: 4 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (12.4 x 19.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. J. Heasty, 31.159. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
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Collection
Gallery
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Collection
Artist
Title
Valentine's Day Card
Date
ca. 1830–1835
Medium
Collage of paper and fabric with printed and ink inscriptions
Classification
Dimensions
folded: 4 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (12.4 x 19.4 cm)
Signatures
[signature of card's sender excised]
Inscriptions
Inscribed front: "Oh let me love / And loving you / I will be constant / Kind and true"; inside of card with handwritten inscriptions: on small sheet affixed to verso, "From a friend & Lover"; and verse on recto: "Sweet maid the fairest of the fair / Attentive listen to my prayer / The dart of love throbs in my breast / 'Tis thee alone can give me rest / Your hand and heart dear girl I crave / Nothing to divide us but the grave / Oh! name the day when I shall call you mine / When we to Church shall haste away / My charming Valentine / Your own true [excised] / [signature excised]"
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. J. Heasty
Accession Number
31.159
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