Yale Center for British Art

Title:: [Embossed and metallic cut paper album card].
Published / Created:: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1875]
Physical Description:: 1 album card : chromolithograph ; 14 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV75 .E644 1875 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Prints
Notes:: Title supplied by cataloger.
Album card. Embossed card with metallic and white paper overlay. Botanical die cut scraps affixed to border. Within border is a mounted silk oval within a metallic cut paper border. Printed in black on silk: "Believe me. Lovely thou art, ay, lovely in spirit and in form; A sunbeam glancing o'er life's tears, A rainbow through the storm." Verso blank.
Subject Terms:: Scrapbooks -- Great Britain. | Amusements -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Love. | Silk-printing.
Form/Genre:: Ephemera. | Album cards. | Embossing. | Die cutting. | Botanical illustrations. | Cut-paper works. | Paperwork (Crafts) | Chromolithographs -- [approximately 1875]