Valentine
Object type: Valentine
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: Artist
Date: 1850–70
Medium: Cameo-embossed, open-work silvered lace paper; gold die cut paper scrap; red, white, and blue satin ribbons; netting, color printed motto - all pasted on to a heavy yellow  page from an album. The album side has pasted on it a hand-colored lithograph of a Sultan riding astride a brightly painted elephant, with retainers walking at the side.
Dimensions: Width: 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm)
Length: 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm)
Classification: Ephemera|Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981
Accession year: 1981