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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A comic woodcut valentine on thin wove paper which has been cut down and pieced together in places. A hand-coloured woodcut of a large, rotund lady wearing a cook's frilled cap and apron, sitting on a stool, crockery and pans on shelving behind, a younger man dressed in footman's livery sitting astride her. A verse is printed below: 'Amourous [sic] Cookey is this the style, / In which you strive the time to guile, / To treat some smart young serving man / With a nice sop in your pan. / While you indulge each warm caress, / Beware you don't get in a mess, / And find you get more than you seek, / And charge him half-a-crown a week.'. A faint graphite inscription is visible above the figures and appears to be an imagined speech spoken by the cook: 'Oh John this is better / than the Rolling / pin'. P.14543-R is one of several cheap comic woodcuts found in the 'Chamberlain envelope' which have additional text or imagery cut and pasted into the original and/or imagined speech (often very lewd in content) added in the form of graphite inscriptions written in the same hand (not Glaishers). Glaisher presumably bought these as a group from another collection. See also P.14542-R, P.14545-R and P.14547-R.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14543-R
Primary reference Number: 215488
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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