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Valentine card: P.14348-R-23

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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Description

An amateur valentine collage arranged on a 4to-sized sheet of buff-coloured paper. A lithograph of a Spanish bride and bridegroom c. 1700s in a palace garden. The male figure appears to be gesturing towards a church steeple seen on the distant horizon. This print has been cut and shaped around the image. A cutting of a printed verse is affixed below: "Can flowers or letters, or aught I can say / Or pledges of love I to thee might convey / can such things, or all things, how many or few / Describe what I feel in affection for you." An inscription in graphite at upper left corner: "2.". P.14351-R was found loose inside album P.14348-R and is another leaf of similar numbered, buff-coloured paper with a cutting from a periodical about Hymen and Cupid pasted onto it.

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

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Collage
Lithograph

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14348-R-23
Primary reference Number: 206611

Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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