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Valentine card: P.14345-R-L1

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Current Location: In storage

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A comic valentine on the theme of the crinoline. Hand-coloured woodcut on thin wove paper. A young woman with hooped skirts boards an Omnibus, showing her legs and drawers to the male conductor below. A printed verse has been cut out and pasted onto the image at lower centre: "Bedecked with gaudy Crinoline; / And 'tho you show your legs so smart / You never shall be my Sweetheart." It is not clear if this verse is original to the valentine or cut and pasted from elsewhere.
A periodical clipping about a 'breach of promise of marriage' has been cut-out and pasted onto the verso. See also P.14345-R-25 for a similar omnibus and crinoline-themed comic valentine. Found loose inside the front cover of album P.14345-R.

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-L1
Primary reference Number: 214384
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Wednesday 3 February 2021 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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