” I Pray You Be Not Queen of Hearts, But My Hearts Queen”
As its Valentines Day…here is one to share.
The illustration above is from my collection of Victorian Greetings Cards. The date is not accurate but best guess is late 1800’s and was published by Raphael Tuck and Sons, one of the pioneer publishing companies and early colour printers.
Unlike most of todays Greeting Cards , these early Victorian cards were simple flat cards. They also pushed the boundaries of colour print in its early years of mass publishing using delicate but simple illustrations.
14th February
(C) David Oakes 2015
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How charming! 🙂 Love the picture.
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so lovely and beautiful words… Thank you dear David, have a nice weekend, love, nia
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So lovely, David. I wonder if such chivalry will ever return. 😕
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Not in quite the same way perhaps (-:
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If I had legs like that, I might be tempted to show them off like that, but then again, probably not. What fun!
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If that was a photograph today there would be an outcry that the image had been ‘Photoshopped’ !…
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