And Can You Think (valentine)
c. 1850
Medium
Lithograph wth hand-coloring on cut and embossed ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Folded sheet: 19.3 × 12.2 cm (7 5/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
Classification
valentine
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
75709
Art Historical Context
Step into the romantic world of Victorian sentiment with *And Can You Think (entine)*, a charming lithograph created around 1850 by George Kershaw. delicate folded sheet, measuring just 19.3 × 12.2 cm, was hand-colored on cut and embossed ivory paper, transforming a simple print into a tactile treasure. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, it exemplifies the era's mass-produced yet artisanal valentines—intimate tokens exchanged during courtship rituals. In mid-19th-century Britain and America, valentines like this one captured the height of romantic nostalg...
About the Artist
George Kershaw
George Kershaw is an artist whose works have been preserved in museum collections in meaningful quantity, pointing to a genuine career and a recognized body of output, even though the biographical details that would identify his nationality, training, and active period have not been established in the sources currently available. The absence of nationality information alongside the absence of date...