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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 a drum and flag motif surrounds a central hand-coloured vignette of a man in a soldier's uniform, carrying his helmet in his left hand. A church is seen on a hill in the distance at the far left. 'No 5' 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: 'In the proud and tented field, / The soldier's heart might scorn to yield / But the flashing eye of Beauty / Bends his heart to Love and Duty ... Yes - Love obeys, when duty calls / When Cupid storms, the Fortress fall / So captured - by such grace and form, / Hymen hath took my heart by storm.'. One of a series of similar designs in the same style which are mounted on consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R. This card is listed with three of these designs, P.14416-R-55, P.14416-R-57 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 (See P.14416-R-L1), 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-61
Primary reference Number: 215206
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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