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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Loose inside album P.14412-R between nos. 64 and 72. Small 64mo-size playing-card-style comic valentine with a simple, embossed border. A die-cut, glazed chromolithograph affixed at the centre; a male figure carrying a truncheon/cosh in his right hand and with the oversized head of a wolf. A long, printed letterpress verse below: "An open foe t'is best to have in strife, / Than a friend who vows he's yours for life; ...". '2' inscribed in graphite on the verso at upper left. From a series of comic valentines, nine of which are mounted onto the same leaf in album P.14412-R. This is a duplicate of P.14412-R-66.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1850
-
1860
Accession number: P.14412-R-L6
Primary reference Number: 214845
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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