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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Loose inside album P.14414-R after the first leaf, inside a large brown manila envelope with one other valentine, P.14414-R-L1. One of two lithographed and hand-coloured comic valentines with clippings of letterpress text below from the same series of lonely hearts adverts which have been cut out separately from their original location and mounted onto a sheet of brown wove paper. An image of a male pugilist with a bruised and blackened face and wearing a yellow and red spotted neckerchief. Pasted below is a clipping of letterpress text: 'A GENTLEMAN, of undoubted reputation and extensive connexion [sic], would be happy to form an alliance with a Young Lady of unblemished character ... would find in the Advertiser a very efficient protector. Address, "44, Ring Lane." '. Two inscriptions in graphite written onto the brown paper secondary support below most likely originate with a dealer: '1840'; '3/ the 2 [3 shillings for the pair]'. P.14414-R-L2 is mounted beside P.14414-R-L3 on the same sheet of brown paper.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1840
Hand colouring
Letterpress
Lithography
Accession number: P.14414-R-L2
Primary reference Number: 215128
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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