Love's Greeting: cherubs with roses and a heart – Antique Wall Art
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Description
Step back in time with Love's Greeting: cherubs with roses and a heart, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Love's Greeting: cherubs with roses and a heart
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Two cherubs take center stage here, one offering a rose while the other holds a heart, a pairing that gave Victorian and Edwardian senders a ready vocabulary of affection. Cherubs, the winged infants borrowed from Renaissance painting, became a staple of greeting cards in the late 1800s, when printers could reproduce color lithography cheaply and mail-order sentiment was booming. Valentines of this kind were often exchanged anonymously or with a verse tucked inside, so the image itself carried much of the message. Look closely at the roses and the heart, since those symbols did most of the talking.
| Original scan | 528 × 827 px |
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| Reference | Img32 |
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