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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A lithograph with hand colouring on white wove paper. A lithographed border of a mock picture frame with reeded horizontals and verticals and baroque mouldings at the corners surrounds a second lozenge-shaped 'frame' at the centre which contains a hand-coloured scene of a couple seated in a garden, the gentleman holding the hand of the lady who wears a pink dress. A verse is printed above: 'I've often wished to have a Friend / With whom my sweetest hours to spend / To whom I safely might impart / Each wish and weakness of my heart ... And to secure my bliss for life / I'd wish that Friend to be my Wife'. The interior is blank. One of eight valentines from the same series which are mounted onto consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below P.14416-R-66 indicates that each was bought for 1 shilling and sixpence. This pricing was probably transcribed from the handwritten MS by second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1), which records the first line of one of the eight followed by the price: 'To you my souls [sic] affection move [P.14416-R-72] & 7 other similar (8) for 12/0'. The '7 other similar' cards from the group of eight can be identified as: P.14416-R-66, P.14416-R-67, P.14416-R-68, P.14416-R-69, P.14416-R-70, P.14416-R-71 and P.14416-R-73. P.14416-R-35, a smaller card with only the inner lozenge-shaped frame, employs the same verse.
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-73
Primary reference Number: 215218
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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