Current Location: In storage
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Valentine card
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Description
A valentine of white embossed paper (as lace), the embossing very weak. A central, hand-coloured lithograph of a pair of miniature lovers in an embrace surrounded by 'giant' plants. A lithographed verse above and below the image: 'Where'er we light where'er we rove, / Be ours one heart, one mind, one Love'. A sheet of very thin, coated paper has been folded and one side pasted to the verso, the other functioning as the back paper. The paper on the inside left-hand page obscures an inscription written in ink, which is still legible: 'From / J H / to I M E'. A price written in graphite on the verso: '1/- [1 shilling]'. P.14585-R was contained along with seven other valentines inside a brown envelope addressed on the recto to, 'Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, England', a return address given at upper left: 'From / ?L[Z?].M. Franklin / 104 West 39th St[reet] / Baltimore'. Glaisher's friend, the American mathematician, Professor William Woolsey Johnson (1841-1927) lived in Baltimore and Glaisher visited him and his wife on many occasions from the 1880s up to 1916. L.M. or Z.M. Franklin is unknown and may have been an art dealer or second-hand book-seller whom Glaisher met during his trips to Baltimore. Julia Poole has documented Glaisher's friendship with Johnson and his trips to America. See Poole's essay, 'Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, The making of a great collection', in Michael Archer, _Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum_ (2013), p. xvi and n. 25, p. xxvi. See record P.14583-R for further details.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
