To My Valentine card with cherubs, hearts and roses – Vintage Wall Art
(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 To My Valentine card with cherubs, hearts and roses in remarkable detail. 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. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
To My Valentine card with cherubs, hearts and roses
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Cupids, hearts and roses crowd this card, a sentimental Valentine design typical of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when printed greetings were becoming a popular way to send affection by post. Mass-produced valentines of this kind often used embossed or die-cut paper, lace-like borders and stock motifs such as winged cherubs, which let senders convey feeling without writing much themselves. The phrase "To My Valentine" was a standard inscription, so the card reflects the commercial side of a holiday that had grown into a fixed custom. Its visual language of hearts and roses also draws on older romantic symbolism, worth noticing for anyone tracing how Valentine's Day imagery developed.
| Original scan | 1,036 × 1,622 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Img171 |
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