Valentine card with cupid, roses and verse – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Valentine card with cupid, roses and verse. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Valentine card with cupid, roses and verse
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Cupid, roses and a rhyming verse share the front of this Valentine card, a combination that was standard for the genre in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mass-produced valentines of this kind were often printed with embossed or chromolithographed borders and sold in stationers' shops and by mail, so that a sender could express affection without writing the sentiment by hand. The verse, which gave a sweetheart a short poem to copy or sign, reflects how much of the holiday's emotional vocabulary was supplied by printers. Cupid, the winged figure of desire, was a familiar emblem in such cards, and his presence signals romance as much as the words do.
| Original scan | 530 × 834 px |
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| Reference | Img195 |
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