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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A lithograph in black ink with hand colouring in pink, green, yellow 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 young woman wearing pink dress trimmed with bows standing at the edge of a lake in a country park. She holds a letter in her left hand. Cupid hides with his bow in the bushes on the right. A church spire is seen in the distance. A verse is printed below: 'All I'd ask of life to give / Thus to love thee, thus to live / No other heaven I'd seek than thine / My charming blooming Valentine'. The interior is blank. The front is adhered to the back at upper right. 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-25 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-22, P.14416-R-23, P.14416-R-24, 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
1380
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Circa
1840
Accession number: P.14416-R-25
Primary reference Number: 215170
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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