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Valentine card: P.14345-R-47

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Comic valentine (Doctor). A hand-coloured woodcut on one leaf of thin, wove paper. The hand-colouring is crudely executed and unfinished. An older man with side-whiskers and an over-sized head with a long, pointed nose feels for a pulse at the bedside of a sick female patient. The doctor wears a skull-shaped tie pin. A bottle of "MIXTU[RE]" and a "PILL" box on the floor to either side. A printed verse below: "Man of pill and potion, physic, and poison plaster, / Who so good a friend when we meet with dire disaster, / For you can cure us quicker than the butcher, cook, or baker, / By preparing us at once for your friend, the Undertaker." Most likely one of a series.

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

Hand colouring
Woodcut

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14345-R-47
Primary reference Number: 214332
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 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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