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Likenesses taken in this style Valentine card
Publisher: J.L. Marks
Hand-coloured wood engraving on a single sheet of very thin wove paper with the title above in letterpress: LIKENESSES TAKEN IN THIS STYLE. A particularly bawdy verse printed below: "Dear Madam, in this picture fair / Your likeness you have got / Sweet lips, bright eyes, and here and there / A little beauty-spot. / I do not say you are the Queen / Of Beauty bright and fair; / But then, you know, I have not seen / The charms you have - somewhere!". Underlinings in pen and black ink in the verse and letters gone over in pen and ink at lower centre where the engraving ink has not taken. "J.L. Marks" printed underneath the verse at lower centre. The paper has been folded into quarters. 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. 76.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1860
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1870
Accession number: P.14394-R
Primary reference Number: 214559
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Likenesses taken in this style" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/214559 Accessed: 2024-05-21 08:37:11
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