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Bifolium (9" by 7.5"), lithographed image and verse, with hand coloring. Very good to near-fine. Light toning, faint sunning where previously framed. Minor finger soiling to lower leaf.
Lithographed Valentine of Handsome Couple with Hand Coloring
Note Cupid is at the ready seated on the fence moving the relationship along.
[United Kingdom]: 1840s. Lithographed Valentine with hand coloring, depicting a handsome couple against a rural countryside town backdrop, and with verse below: "Licensed by Valentines Saint, / Our sex on this day may reveal / The hopes, and the fears, and the plaints, / That on others they're forced to conceal. / That I love you I freely confess, / That my heart I have given to thee, / That my hand shall accompany the rest / When you ask the said offering of me."Bifolium (9" by 7.5"), lithographed image and verse, with hand coloring. Very good to near-fine. Light toning, faint sunning where previously framed. Minor finger soiling to lower leaf.
Price: $275.00
Item #50218223
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