IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215157 accession number: P.14416-R-12 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-coloured lithograph on 4to-size, very thin white wove paper. An ornate, oval-shaped baroque-style strapwork/scrollwork border printed in blue ink with entwining vine with grapes, leaves, flowers featuring Cupid and Hebe. A heart pierced with an arrow at lower centre. Within the border, a lithograph printed in black ink with some hand colouring, a caricatured image of a broad-bodied black woman in a rural setting wearing a white apron with a low-cut blouse, string of pearls and large hoop earrings and holding a letter in her right hand. A verse printed below: 'Your wooly [sic] hair I do declare / Appears to me divine / Then stray no more sweet Blackamoor / But be my Valentine'. The interior is blank. Front adhered to the back at upper right. One of four examples from the same series with blue lithographed ornate borders which are mounted together, consecutively in album P.14416-R. See also P.14416-R-13, P.14416-R-14 and P.14416-R-15. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '2 for 7/= [7 shillings]'. This presumably records a price from the verso which was visible prior to mounting. However, this pricing could also have been found on the 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. P.14416-R-12 is not listed (and may either have already been owned by Glaisher or bought at a later date), but two of the four examples from this series are listed with the pricing of 'the 2 for 7/='. See P.14416-R-13 and P.14416-R-14. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215157 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1842 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1842 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Strong, Thomas W. IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_12_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 813 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_12_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 630 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_12_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 813 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_12_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 315 pixels width: 250 pixels