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Valentine card: P.14374-R

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Small 48mo playing-card-style 'men and flowers' themed comic valentine with a die-stamped 'lace' edge. A chromolithograph with rounded corners affixed to the centre of 'lace'-edged white card, features an older man with a head like a sunflower, his face at the centre, wearing a blue frock coat decorated with insignia and placing his right hand on his breast. A chromolithographed scrap at upper centre with the motto: FRIENDSHIP LOVE AND TRUTH. On the verso: "4" written in graphite; "1840s" written very faintly in graphite. 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. 74. From a series featuring men with flowers or as hybrid flowers and originally mounted in album P.14412-R as one of nine from the same series. P.14412-R-89 and P.14412-R-90 are duplicates, although each has a different motto. The quality of the art-work in this series is high, although neither the artist nor the manufacturer are known. Almost certainly originally contained inside a cream envelope found loose on the same leaf of the album and inscribed in hand-written black ink: "Flower type / c. 184-" and "8" written in blue crayon. The envelope possibly originated with a dealer who was sending Glaisher valentines on approval.

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

19th Century
1840 - 1850

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14374-R
Primary reference Number: 214539

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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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