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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
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 leaves, roses, putti, flaming hearts, Cupid's quiver and bow and Hymen's flaming torch printed in blue ink. At the centre of the border is a gentleman wearing a top hat and holding a cane in his left hand. A castle on a hill is seen in the distance on the right. A number printed within the illustration at lower centre: '34', indicates that this valentine is one of a series. A verse is printed below: 'Each kind expression ev'ry tender thought / Has mighty transports in my bosom wrought / Come then dear youth to you I will incline / Be thou but faithfull [sic] Im [sic] thy Valentine'. The interior is blank. One of six valentines from the same series, all with the same printed border, and mounted consecutively in album P.14416-R. P.14416-R-22 is listed 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), bracketed together with the 5 other cards from the same series and priced as 'the six for £1.4/6 [£1, 4 shillings and sixpence]'. The other 5 cards in the group are: P.14416-R-23, P.14416-R-24, P.14416-R-25, P.14416-R-26 and P.14416-R-27.
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-22
Primary reference Number: 215167
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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