IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215164 accession number: P.14416-R-19 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A lithograph in black ink with hand colouring in red, green, yellow, brown and blue paint on 4to-size very thin, white wove paper and surrounded by a circular lithographed border of flowers printed in blue ink. At the centre is a caricature of a black man as Dandy, depicted striking a foppish pose and wearing top hat, monocle and striped breeches, promenading arm in arm with an older black woman. A number printed within the illustration at lower left: '36', indicates that this valentine is one of a series. A verse is printed below: 'My dingy dear, when you appear / My heart goes pit-a-pat / So black your face, thick lips to grace / And nose so very flat.'. The interior is blank. One of four valentines from the same series, all with lithographed flower garland borders in blue ink, mounted together in album P.14416-R. Three of these were bought from the second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton (P.14416-R-17, P.14416-R-18 and P.14416-R-20), but P.14416-R-19 was either already owned by Glaisher or purchased later and mounted with the other three in album P.14416-R. 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/215164 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. CITATIONS -------- A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 757 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 676 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 757 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 338 pixels width: 250 pixels