Raphael Tuck & Sons
Raphael Tuck & Sons stands as a Victorian-era firm whose greeting-card and print production embraced chromolithography, gilding and heavy card-stock to give popular imagery a polished, keepsake finish. Its valentines and related sheets belong to the decorative, sentimental print culture of the later nineteenth century, where elaborate color printing met the demands of a growing market for gift ephemera. The collection here holds a single work, a Valentine titled "Standing easel, chromolithographed family," dated to 1873 and executed in these favored techniques. Impressions up to that year reflect the firm's commercial output during the period covered by the sheets.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
