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Introduction
- Lovebirds
- 'The Morning of St Valentine'
- Valentine display in Woolworth's, 1937
- Sweetheart brooch
- Seizure of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
- Shrimp pot
- Ladies night dance programme
- 'Kissing bug'
- Pair of Valentine cards, 1850-1900
- French rose
- Sailor's farewell
- Joseph Denham letter
- 'Love tormenting the soul', by John Gibson
- Locarno handbill, 1963
- Inuit boots
- Rialto Ballroom handbill, 1937
- Sailor's valentine
- 'An Idyll', by Maurice W Greiffenhagen
- Cupid cup and saucer
- Romantic moths
- Baltic Valentine menu, 1913
- 'Our first tiff', by Robert W Macbeth
- Heart shaped silver plate

'The Morning of St Valentine' by John Callcott Horsley (1817 - 1903)

Oil on canvas, 1865

Accession number WAG 943

painting of a lady holding a letter

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Signed and dated: JC HORSLEY 1865 (centre, on tablecloth).

Presented to the Walker Art Gallery collections by George Audley in 1925.

detail of signature along fringed edge of tablecloth

Detail of signature on tablecloth

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