Cupid sends a Valentine – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Cupid sends a Valentine comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Cupid, the winged figure of love from Roman myth, is the star of this card, shown delivering a heart-shaped valentine with the cheerful confidence of a postal carrier. Valentine cards like this grew popular in the United States and Britain during the nineteenth century, when printers began producing mass-made greetings with lace-edged paper, bright chromolithographed color, and sentimental verse. Cupid's bow and arrows were a familiar shorthand for romance, so a single image of him could say everything about affection without a word of explanation. Notice how the card's decorative style reflects the era's taste for ornament, and how the tradition it belongs to later shifted toward the commercial valentines of the twentieth century.
| Original scan | 527 × 816 px |
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| Reference | Img79 |
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