Forget Me Not Where'eer You Be (valentine)
c. 1850
Medium
Collaged elements, watercolor, and pen and blue ink on cut and embossed ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Folded sheet: 18 × 11.4 cm (7 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
valentine
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
75385
Art Historical Context
Step into the romantic world of Victorian sentiment with *Forget Me Not Where'eer You Be*, a valentine crafted around 1850 by George Kershaw This folded sheet, measuring a petite 18 × 11.4 cm, captures the era's passion for heartfelt expressions of love, urging the recipient to remember their beloved no matter the distance. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, it exemplifies the intricate handmade valentines exchanged during a time when mass-produced cards were just emerging. Kershaw's mastery shines in his innovative mixed-media technique: collaged element...
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...