IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206599 accession number: P.14348-R-11 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Valentine card of cream laid paper, roughly 8vo size with a lithograph of black ink (uncoloured). A large, central image of three women, two wearing mob caps, dousing a gentleman with water and washing him with a mop in a large, wooden bath tub. A verse printed above and below: "You snivelling wretch of a lover give o'er / Your raptures and extacies [sic] all / For Betty and Sally my maids both have swore, / To give your ambition a fall. ...". The inside pages are blank. The Museum of London holds an example of this print in their collection (34.170/1006) and according to their records, it is a later reprint of an original by James Kendrew of York made around 1825 and one of a series of reprints published by Andrew Tuer of the Leadenhall Press for valentine manufacturer and collector, Jonathan King to sell to other collectors. They date it as 1860-1880. The Museum of London example is also reproduced in Frank Staff, _The Valentine & Its Origins_ (1969), no. 50, p.50. The Fitzwilliam example is one of a series of cards on cream laid paper with uncoloured lithographs, apparently all later reprints and probably all with origins similar to those found at the Museum of London, mounted together in album P.14348-R. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206599 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithograph CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_11_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 735 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14348_R_11_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 697 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_11_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 735 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14348_R_11_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 348 pixels width: 250 pixels