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Cupid's Grammar of Love Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Small 64mo-size white card with embossed border and scalloped edges. A 'book' of cream card affixed at the centre with a lithographed cover design tinted in blue and yellow: CUPID'S / GRAMMAR / OF / LOVE. Within medallion at centre: INFINITIVE MOOD / IMPERFECT TENSE / SINGULAR. Inside the 'book' on the right-hand 'page' is a tinted lithograph in sepia with hand-colouring of a man seated at a table drinking from a glass poured from a glass decanter. Printed on the white card backing at upper and lower centre: "She does not love, what / shall I do! / My friend I'll turn / from love to you." This card was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 80. From a series and one of six in the collection, four of which are mounted onto the same leaf in album P.14412-R. P.14373-R and one other, P.14357-R were also originally mounted onto the same leaf of album P.14412-R. All six cards were almost certainly originally contained inside a cream envelope found loose on the same leaf of the album and inscribed in hand-written black ink: "Grammar of Love, / Set of 6 / (_Possibly unique_) / c. 183-". The envelope possibly originated with a dealer who was sending Glaisher valentines on approval.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1830
-
1840
Accession number: P.14373-R
Primary reference Number: 214538
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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