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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Valentine with moving part. Hand-coloured lithograph on 32mo-size white wove paper with an embossed border. A fishmonger stands with his legs apart holding a large fish in his hands. When the tab is pulled, the fish moves up and down. The original tab is missing and a new one inserted in its place. A printed verse below: "Your floundering about is no use, / No man of mussles for me, / With your crabby temper and abuse, / Is Billingsgate slang to a T.". The inside pages are blank. From a series of moveable valentines which were possibly made by Windsor & Sons. The Glaisher collection contains six of these, four of which are mounted inside album P.14412-R on the same or adjacent album leaf. The other two were included in the 1995 Fitzwilliam exhibition, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, but were originally mounted inside P.14412-R with the other cards from the series. See P.14360-R, a greengrocer holding a bunch of carrots which is operated by a push-tab.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
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Circa
1850
Accession number: P.14412-R-45
Primary reference Number: 214769
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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