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Cupid's Snare: P.14348-R-3

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Cupid's Snare

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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Description

Valentine card of cream laid paper, roughly 8vo size with a lithograph of black ink (uncoloured) titled at upper centre on a scroll: CUPID'S SNARE. A scene within a heart-shaped border at the centre shows Cupid setting an arapuca box trap to capture two flying hearts. The steeple of a church can be seen rising above the trees in the distance. The inside pages are blank. One of a series of cards on cream laid paper with uncoloured lithographs, apparently all later reprints, the designs possibly taken from collections of love poetry published in the early nineteenth century by James Kendrew of York, and mounted in album P.14348-R. A hand-coloured version of this print is in the collection of the McCord Museum in Canada. See C271_B1.36, which is given a date of 1880-1910: http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/C271_B1.36?Lang=1&accessnumber=C271_B1.36.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
1880 - 1910

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Lithograph

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14348-R-3
Primary reference Number: 206591
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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