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Scrap album containing valentines
Publisher: Rock & Co.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A small, dark brown, leather-bound album with an embossed design and gold tooling at the corners, recto and verso. 'ALBUM' is tooled in gold across the spine along with gold lines at top and bottom. The front and back endpapers and pastedowns are covered in pink, embossed and ridged satin finish paper. An inscription on the front board written in black ink indicates the previous owner of the album: 'Sinclair Scott. / Finnart.'. Above the name is a small square of white paper with an etching of an heraldic stag. There are 70 leaves of gilt-edged wove paper of various colours and weights, some with embossed designs and some with a coated finish. The front fly-leaf of the album is a thin, coated paper with a very carefully, hand-coloured lithograph of a vase of flowers (pink rose, pansy, pink carnation) with gold ink detailing on the vase and printed below with the publisher's name: 'Rock & Co London'. An invoice found inside the front cover of the album indicates that it was sent to Glaisher on approval from the London bookseller, John Salkeld on August 7th, 1925. See P.14419-R-L1. In correspondence from Glaisher to Miss Catherine Parsons held in the Fitzwilliam Museum archive, Glaisher mentions Salkeld as a source of valentines from February 4th, 1925 onwards, especially in relation to albums containing valentines. See MS 919-1985. CONTENTS: The album contains 13 valentines, almost all of which are marked by small scraps of paper torn apparently from a bookseller's catalogue (probably Salkeld's own), dated August 1st, 1925. The other leaves of the album are pasted (by the previous owner) with etchings, engravings and hand-coloured lithographs (some apparently after finished paintings) in a range of genres, including portraiture, biblical, natural history and topographical views of places in Great Britain, including Loch Leven Castle and the Conway Suspension Bridge. There is also one Baxter process print of a spray of flowers and two original (amateur) drawings.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14419-R
Primary reference Number: 215408
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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