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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
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.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1836
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Circa
1852
Pen and ink
Lithography
Graphite
Accession number: P.14414-R-121
Primary reference Number: 215112
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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