Yale Center for British Art

Title:: Can you keep a secret? If so open this.
Published / Created:: Great Britain : publisher not identified, mid-19th century.
Physical Description:: 1 card ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Related Content:: View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:14882895
Classification:: Prints
Notes:: Valentine card. Cream paper valentine with embossed and cut paper against orange paper background. Two movable flaps, with botanical illustrations on front, which when opened reveal text: I love you dearly. Also decorated with silver scraps.
Subject Terms:: Valentines -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:: Ephemera. | Valentines. | Botanical illustrations | Embossed papers. | Cut-paper works. | Scraps. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850. | Flaps.