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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A comic valentine on thin white wove paper which has been mounted onto a larger piece of white wove paper, the central part of which is cut away (visible on the verso). A hand-coloured woodcut of a court-room scene with a pregnant woman on trial who stands before four male judges/barristers wearing robes and wigs. One of the men is angrily pointing at her and a printed speech bubble contains: 'Will you swear the child is my / client's or "Any other Man's - / Am I right.' A printed verse below: 'See what you may expect one day, / If you indulge in wanton play; / And such I know has been your plan, / To romp and flirt with every man. / But let me advise my wanton fair, / Or you'll have as much as you can BEAR; / And stand thus some luckless day, / For LABOUR cometh after play.'. A handwritten inscription on the secondary support at upper centre: 'Shows what Lady Lucia's condition was.'. This is the same hand as that seen in other 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.14543-R and P.14545-R.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14547-R
Primary reference Number: 215492
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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