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Valentine card: P.14412-R-14

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co

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Description

Comic valentine on the subject of the crinoline/loose morals. 18mo-size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured woodcut of a woman wearing a short crinoline skirt, with applied textile of meshwork (presumably to look like a crinoline cage), which is slipped in through a slit in the paper from the verso. A printed verse below: "Fast, but anything but pretty, / You'd better wear a vail [sic] / For sure enough you'll single live / Although you're out for sale!". "[J.]T. Wood [278 Strand]" printed at lower left and right. The inside pages are blank. Mounted on the same album leaf as other similar cards by J.T. Wood, all of the same size and relating to the subject of crinolines. It seems quite likely that the series of valentines on the subject of crinolines which are mounted together in album P.14412-R were purchased by Glaisher from the Actons of Brighton in 1924. In a letter to Miss Catherine Parsons dated 19th November 1924, Glaisher states: 'I am enclosing some valentines sent me on appro [approval] from Miss Acton of Brighton: they are 3/- each or £2.10 for the lot. They all relate to the crinoline period 1860 ... There are some duplicates tht [that] you could relieve me of if I take the set which may be the best to do.'. Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 905-1985, 19th November, 1924, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons.

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
Probably 1850 - 1860

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Woodcut

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14412-R-14
Primary reference Number: 214738

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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