Victorian angel holding a love letter with doves and flowers – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Victorian angel holding a love letter with doves and flowers, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Victorian angel holding a love letter with doves and flowers
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An angel delivering a love letter, shown with doves and flowers, turns a traditionally devotional figure into a messenger of romance. Images like this belong to the sentimental culture of the Victorian era, when angels, birds and blossoms were common motifs on valentines, greeting cards and decorative paper. The angel's role as a bearer of news was familiar from religious art, and makers borrowed that association to suggest that affection, like a heavenly message, arrived with grace and purity. Doves and flowers carried their own well-understood meanings of peace, devotion and tenderness.
| Original scan | 649 × 989 px |
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| Reference | Angels033 |
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