Valentine - Mechanical -- armoire, family, flowers
ca. 1875
Medium
Heavy card stock, chromolithography, gilding, die-cut scraps,white ribbon
Dimensions
Width: 3 1/8 in. (8 cm) Length: 4 3/4 in. (12 cm)
Classification
Ephemera|Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981
Accession Number
1981.1136.875
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, British, 19th century · 1800–1900
**Anonymous, British, 19th century** is not the name of a single individual but a standard museum attribution used for works whose creators remain unidentified yet are clearly British and date to the 1800s. Major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, employ this designation for hundreds of drawings, prints, designs, and decorative studies that lack signatures or firm documentary ...