IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214331 accession number: P.14345-R-46 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comic valentine entitled above the image: TO A GRINDER. A hand-coloured woodcut on thin wove paper, which is folded in half to create an inside page (blank). The hand-colouring is crudely executed. A bearded man sharpens scissors in the street on a portable grinding wheel operated by his right foot. Printed below the image, lower right: "Lloyd, [231, Shoreditch [190". Probably one of a series. Lloyd publishers was registered at 231 Shoreditch in 1840 and until 1843. A printed verse below: "A scissor-grinder! - what a chance: / To think with him through life I'd dance! / Your calling's such, that even a slut, / You, like your knives, would make to cut ; / Then read these lines, and ne'er opine / That you'll win me for a Valentine." 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/214331 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1843 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1843 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Lloyd, Edward (publisher) IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14345_R_46_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 868 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14345_R_46_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 590 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14345_R_46_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 868 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14345_R_46_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 295 pixels width: 250 pixels