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A glimpse into the kaleidoscope of Victorian natural history✨🔬 PhD student @rhul_cvs, ardent time-traveller & amasser of folklore & fairytale.🕯
Feb 14, 2020 9 tweets 5 min read
With the advent of the Penny Post 💌📮✨ the Victorian #ValentinesDay⁠ ⁠ card business flourished. Prepare for a thread of cut-lace & ornately illustrated cards as well as cheaper comic valentines. ♥️

(Card c. 1884 by Walter Crane, bequeathed to the V&A by Miss Edith Hipkins). This card was part of 'The Language of Flowers' valentines series by perfumier Eugène Rimmel in the 1870s & 80s - it would have originally been scented with ‘Forget-Me-Not’. 🌸🌾👒 The paper lace lithograph tableau of a man & woman is most likely by Jules Chéret.(V&A, London).