Valentine

Title	Valentine
Artist	Kate Greenaway
Date	1874 19th century
Medium	White card stock with embossed, scalloped borders; chromolithography in colors and gold
Classification	Ephemera
Holding institution	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit line	Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981
Rights	Public domain (CC0). Free to use for any purpose.

Subjects: Botanical illustration

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Made available through the The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access programme, which explicitly places this work in the public domain.

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