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Salt: P.14345-R-88

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Salt
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

World War I Valentine. Printed at upper left: Salt [slang for sailor]. A large woodcut and lithograph printed in two colours (black and red ink) on a long sheet of folded thin, wove paper. A sailor viewed in three-quarter profile facing right. He is barefoot and holds a rope in his hands. He has tattoos of an anchor and a union flag on his right forearm. A heart is drawn near to his left hand with the message: This is / my heart. / for you. The ribbon on his cap is labelled: VICTO[RY]. HMS Victory was a Royal Navy Shore Base located in the Portsmouth area. A printed verse below: I'm thinkingofyouathomeasyousailtheoceanblue, [no spaces between words on first line] / And send you my heart by post as a token I / shall be true, / If any other chap comes cooing you need not fear, / For I'll make him keep his distance with a / clout upon the ear! See also P.14345-R-87, another World War I Valentine for a sailor.

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

20th Century
Circa 1914 - 1918

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Woodcut
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14345-R-88
Primary reference Number: 214373

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

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

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