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Valentine card
Publisher: Strong, Thomas W.
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 is a lithograph printed in black ink with some hand colouring of a gentleman wearing a top hat and holding a cane in his left hand. A mountainous landscape setting behind him with a cottage to the left. A verse is printed below: 'Then hear me lovely fellow say / What rapture would one smile convey; / Oh grant my prayer dear youth incline / And answer this Loves [sic] Valentine'. The interior is blank. 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-12, P.14416-R-13 and P.14416-15. This card is listed along with P.14416-R-13 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 two bracketed together and priced as 'the 2 for 7/0'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1842
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Circa
1870
Accession number: P.14416-R-14
Primary reference Number: 215159
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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