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The Brothels of Montmartre, illustrated by George Bottini.

Love and Pain (Vampire), by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1895). Munch Museum.

Front cover of La Vie Parisienne by Chéri Hérouard, 20th October 1920.

'La moda elegante ilustrada. Peinados para señoras y señoritas., 1879.'

Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets), by French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1884 or earlier). The MET.

Fashion plate from De Gracieuse, June 1 1901.

Rocks at Belle-ile, Port-domois by French painter Claude Monet (1886). Cincinnati Art Museum.

By World War I, the giving of cards (and gifts) on Valentine’s Day had very much declined and hand-crafted cards were a dying art.

The legendary British illustrator of children’s books Kate Greenaway designed Valentines in the late 1800s which were enormously popular. Her Valentine designs sold so well for the card publisher, Marcus Ward, that she was encouraged to design cards for other holidays.

By the mid-1850s the sending of manufactured Valentine’s Day cards was popular enough that the New York Times published an editorial on February 14, 1856 sharply criticizing the practice: