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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A lithograph with hand colouring on 8vo-size white wove paper. A hand-coloured lithographed border of stylised leaves, vines, flowers and lighthouse motif surrounds a central hand-coloured vignette of a man in Admiral's uniform receiving a letter from Cupid who hovers in a blue cloud on the right, holding his bow in his left hand. A ship is seen on water in the background. 'No 10' 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: 'When the Vessel is tacking about / Ready oh! Ready is then the shout, / ... Love sits aloft in his potent spell, / And points where the Sailor's heart would dwell, / Like the Compass true points to you, / The haven of Love is at last in view.'. The interior is blank. The front is adhered to the back at centre right. The same lighthouse motif is seen in another naval-themed design from the same series, P.14416-R-62. One of a series of similar designs in the same style which are mounted on consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1). This card is listed with three of these designs, P.14416-R-57, P.14416-R-61 and P.14416-R-62, in a handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R, with all four bracketed together and priced as 'the four for 10/0 [10 shillings]'. Eight further valentines from this group are also found on the Frampton list, bracketed together and priced at '8 for £1-4-0'. See P.14416-R-51, P.14416-R-52, P.14416-R-53 and P.14416-R-54, P.14416-R-56, P.14416-R-58, P.14416-R-59 and P.14416-R-60.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1820
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Circa
1830
Accession number: P.14416-R-55
Primary reference Number: 215200
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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