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Valentine card: P.14414-R-121

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A lithographed proof for a valentine design in black ink on a single sheet of 4to-size thin, white wove paper with embossed corners and a lace-paper edge. At the centre is a small, rectangular lithographed scene of a church interior with a couple sitting on a pew in the right foreground. A hand-written verse in brown ink at upper centre: 'Already have we pledged our vows / Our Union now draws near / But when shall we be asked in church? / Say for I long to hear / Let not a single hour's delay / Fair Valentine protract the day'. An inscription in brown ink in a different hand written along the left side of the pape is an instruction for an alternative ending to the verse: 'Or for 2 last lines / And let not [ ... ] delay / Fair Valentine protract the day'. An inscription in graphite at lower centre again relates to the accompanying verse: 'Asked in Church / 6 lines'. 'No 1/ X' written in graphite (probably in the same hand) at upper right.

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 1836 - Circa 1852

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Pen and ink
Lithography
Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14414-R-121
Primary reference Number: 215112

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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