IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214738 accession number: P.14412-R-14 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/214738 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: J.T. Wood & Co IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_14_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 826 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14412_R_14_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 620 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_14_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 826 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14412_R_14_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 310 pixels width: 250 pixels