IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214554 accession number: P.14389-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Monday 29 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comic valentine. A hand-coloured woodcut on very thin wove paper. The hand-colouring is crudely executed. A male figure with bandy legs and an over-sized head with pimples on chin and nose. A printed verse below: "Pretty beast, where 'ere you go, / Every one will point we know, / Bear leg'd beauty, senseless quiz - ...". The inside pages are blank. From a series of comic figures. 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. 71. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214554 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown