Valentine card: P.14416-R-54

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

Entities

• Valentine card

Categories

• Print
• Album

Description

A lithograph with hand colouring on 8vo-size white wove paper. A hand-coloured lithographed border of stylised leaves, vines and parrots/birds of paradise surrounds a central hand-coloured vignette of a woman wearing a green evening dress, standing beside a yellow chaise longue and holding a letter emblazoned with a red heart in her left hand. 'No 7' is lithographed at the lower right of the image, indicating that this design is one of a series. A verse is printed below in sloping script: 'So young so innocent and fair / No single flower can eer compare, / With thee my little timid maid, / ... all nature's loveliness is seen, / and every sweet less sweet must be / Than thou my Valentine to me!'. The interior is blank. One of a series of similar designs in the same style which are mounted on consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below P.14416-R-51, '8 for £1-4-0' probably relates to that 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), where P.14416-R-51 is listed and bracketed with 7 other similar valentines from album P.14416-R, including P.14416-R-54 and which are priced at '8 for £1-4-0'. In addition to P.14416-R-51 and P.14416-R-54 the others listed are: P.14416-R-52, P.14416-R-53, P.14416-R-56, P.14416-R-58, P.14416-R-59 and P.14416-R-60. Four further valentines from this group are also found on the Frampton list, bracketed together and priced at 10 shillings for the four. See P.14416-R-55, P.14416-R-57, P.14416-R-61 and P.14416-R-62.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928