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Goodbye Sweetheart Goodbye: P.14412-R-114

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Goodbye Sweetheart Goodbye
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Miniature-sized comic valentine in the design of a book of music which opens to reveal a comic scene inside. The front cover of the 'book' has a lithographed design in red ink with a blue border. The title is printed at upper centre: GOODBYE, / SWEETHEART / GOODBYE, with three staves of music below. The book opens to show a coloured lithographic scene of a young man being pushed off a ladder by a young woman standing on a balcony. One of a series of miniature comic music book valentines. See also P.14412-R-115, which is mounted on the same album leaf.

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
Circa 1870 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14412-R-114
Primary reference Number: 214838

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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