IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214841 accession number: P.14412-R-L2 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Loose inside album P.14412-R between nos. 21 and 36. Comic valentine on the subject of a trade. Very small, 48mo size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured lithograph of a policeman holding a wooden truncheon in his left hand and pointing with his right, a figure fleeing in the background. Printed verse below: "Move on young man don't bother me / about your fond affection / In your peeler's coat a thief I see / you'll not escape detection.". A 'peeler' was a slang term for a member of the Metropolitan Police Force established by Sir Robert Peel in 1828. Peel proposed that senior uniformed ranks should be filled from below and not brought in from the higher social classes, hence the implication in the verse that the policeman is a 'thief'. 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. This is a duplicate of P.14412-R-34. 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/214841 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_L2_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 956 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14412_R_L2_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 536 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_L2_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 956 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14412_R_L2_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 268 pixels width: 250 pixels