Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- This card depicts two winged cupids at the center with flowers and curved framing surrounding. Above their heads, text in brown: To My / Valentine. One cupid stands on a flower-covered ladder delivering a white envelope with a red heart, as the other cupid looks on, holding the ladder. Flanking them are two die-cut paper vases holding two-dimensional flowers drawn directly onto the card.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1810
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Jacob H. Schiff
- Medium
- Chromolithograph
- Dimensions
- 32.2 x 21.4 cm (12 11/16 x 8 7/16 in.), irregular
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Greeting card
- Type
- Greeting card
