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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
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.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14345-R-L1
Primary reference Number: 214384
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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