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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A hand-coloured lithograph on 4to-size thin, white wove paper. A couple recline on a sofa outside. A purple curtain is draped over a tree branch above. A verse is printed above and below the central image: 'The sensitive heart's like a delicate plant / that blooms here for a day / ... The being thus possessed may long for that day / In his cold grey tomb to be laid'. The impression is weak. The interior is blank. One of eight examples from the same series which are mounted together, consecutively in album P.14416-R. The lithographic style of all eight reproduces a loose and fluid pastel drawing. This card is one of six listed as a group in a handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R. See P.14416-R-L1. The group is bracketed together and priced as 'the six for £1.1/0'. The other cards in the group of six are: P.14416-R-4, P.14416-R-6, P.14416-R-7, P.14416-R-8, P.14416-R-9. The remaining two cards in the larger group of eight are listed separately in the Frampton MS, bracketed together and priced at '2 for 7/0'. See P.14416-R-5 and P.14416-R-11.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1830
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Circa
1840
Accession number: P.14416-R-10
Primary reference Number: 215155
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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