To my Valentine: cherubs with red heart and violets – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of To my Valentine: cherubs with red heart and violets brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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To my Valentine: cherubs with red heart and violets
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Two cherubs share a red heart pierced with a bundle of violets, a pairing that Victorian and Edwardian senders used to speak in the language of flowers, where violets stood for faithfulness and modesty. Printed Valentines like this one were often sold ready-made, with a blank space or a short verse added by hand, so the sentiment could be personalized before it was posted. The mass-produced card trade grew rapidly in the nineteenth century as cheap color lithography made sentimental images affordable to ordinary households, and many surviving examples show the soft, rounded putti and ribbons typical of that style.
| Original scan | 505 × 814 px |
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| Reference | Img109 |
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