IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214741 accession number: P.14412-R-17 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comic valentine of the changeable 'before and after' type with second illustration inside. 18mo-size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured lithograph of a woman wearing a crinoline with a flounced yellow skirt. Another hand-coloured lithograph on the right-hand inside page to show the same woman with the second layer of her skirt removed to show the crinoline cage and her petticoats beneath. A printed verse below: "THE CRINOLINE / With a matchless face and form / A dress where underneath is worn / The Crinoline - a curious thing / A cage wherein a Bird might sing.". "J.T. Wood 278, Strand" printed at lower left and right. Additionally embossed "WOOD" at lower left. From a series of 'changeable' valentines by J.T. Wood, six of which are mounted onto adjacent leaves of the same album. See P.14412-R-15, P.14412-R-16, P.14412-R-18, P.14412-R-20 and P.14412-R-37. 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, Letter to Miss Catherine Parsons, November 19th 1924. 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/214741 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography 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_17_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 854 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14412_R_17_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 600 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_17_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 854 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14412_R_17_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 300 pixels width: 250 pixels