Valentine card with cherubs, doves and "To my Valentine – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Valentine card with cherubs, doves and "To my Valentine in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Valentine card with cherubs, doves and "To my Valentine
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Cherubs and doves frame the greeting "To my Valentine" on this card, a design that draws on a long tradition of Victorian-era sentiment. Such cards were often printed with embossed or lace-like borders and hand-finished touches, and they were exchanged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a more personal alternative to a spoken declaration. Cupid, the winged figure of love from Roman mythology, appears here as a small child, while doves have long symbolized devotion and gentle affection. Notice how the verse-like phrasing and decorative motifs worked together to say what the sender might find too bashful to say aloud.
| Original scan | 808 × 546 px |
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| Reference | Img164 |
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