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Valentine card: P.14412-R-24

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co
Publisher: Kershaw, George

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Description

Comic valentine on the subject of a trade. Very small, 48mo size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured lithograph of an old sailor with a large square-shaped head. Printed verse below: "[?Sweet] to you Ugly meerly [sic] to say / A Sailor I love with good looks on his side / Such a wretched old sea shark ...". The inside pages are blank. "WOOD" embossed (faintly) at lower right. One of a series of small comic cards by J.T. Wood with embossed borders and hand-coloured lithographs on the subject of trades, sixteen of which are mounted as a group in album P.14412-R, along with three loose duplicates.

White lace-paper decorated with a collage of white fabric leaves, silver tinsel leaves and silver and gold threaded fabric flowers. A lithographed design of miniature leaves and tendrils in silver ink on the central panel and a circular hand-coloured lithograph of flowers cut and pasted at the centre, a printed motto below: 'I love thee dearly!'. 'KERSHAW' stamped at lower right. The inside pages are blank.

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 1840 - 1860

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14412-R-24
Primary reference Number: 214748
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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