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Valentine card
Publisher: Lloyd, Edward (publisher)
A hand-coloured wood engraving on thin wove paper of a couple in an interior, the lady reclining on a chaise longue and the gentleman holding a top hat, a hovering Cupid carrying a flaming torch on the right. Printed below: "Lloyd, 231, Shoreditch. [204". Lloyd is registered as living at 231, Shoreditch in 1840. See www.edwardlloyd.org. A printed verse below: "In the name of the young God of Love, / Whose votary I have been long, / I send you, from my heart, this epistle / To beg you will list to my song ...". The inside pages are blank. From a series published by Lloyd. See also: P.14346-R-31; P.14346-R-32; P.14346-R-33.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1840
Accession number: P.14346-R-34
Primary reference Number: 214420
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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