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Hymen's Golden Chain: P.14410-R-6

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Hymen's Golden Chain
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Etching, engraving and hand-colouring on one sheet of white wove paper. Central image within an etched frame of a couple wearing regency dress, the woman as a bride in white, sleeping beside a shrine within a temple and secured with a golden chain by the gentleman. Hymen hovering to the left, secures the chain to the shrine with a padlock. Hymen's flaming torch is seen on the ground below the shrine. Decorative vignettes of doves with laurel branches and hearts pierced with arrows chained to flaming torches at upper and lower corners. Engraved title below central image: HYMEN'S GOLDEN CHAIN. From a series of Hymen subjects. See also P.14410-R-3. 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. 7. A graphite number "7" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue.

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
Production date: circa AD 1822

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Engraving
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14410-R-6
Primary reference Number: 214581

Audit data

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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