Untitled Valentine (Silver Dove)
c. 1850
Medium
Collaged elements with 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
75836
Art Historical Context
Step into the romantic world of Victorian sentiment with *Untitled Valentine (Silver Dove by George Kershaw, created around 1850. This delicate folded sheet, measuring just 18 × 11.4 cm, captures the era's passion for elaborate love tokens exchanged on St. Valentine's Day. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department and classified as a valentine, it showcases Kershaw's skill in crafting intimate, handmade expressions of affection. Kershaw employed innovative mixed-media techniques: collaged elements combined with watercolor, pen, and blue ink on cut and embossed iv...
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...