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Title(s):
May the first fruits of your undertakings be timely and bountiful.
Published/Created:
[England] ; [1890?]
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 13 x 10 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eph Gr 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12717261
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Chromolithographed card. Image on front is of a branch with foliage, plums, and a butterfly. Printed in gold, purple, green, orange, yellow and black.
"With compliments of the season."
Verse on back: "Have patience! the chrysalis lies, The lowest of earthly things-Before, as a butterfly, It rises on outspread wings-The clouds must part in the sky, When summer the sunshine brings. Have patience! our feet must rest where the shade of the valley lies-Before, with outreaching wings, We flutter towards the skies-Before, on the mountain crest, We open our earth-bound eyes."
Subject Terms:
Butterflies.
Fruit.
Greeting cards -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Ephemera.
Greeting cards.
Botanical illustrations.
Plum (Fruit).
Chromolithographs -- 1890.
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