The Valentine Number of Bow Bells, by Adelaide Claxton

An image of Album. Newspaper cuttings. The Valentine Number of Bow Bells. Valentine supplement. Dicks, John, publisher. Claxton, Adelaide, after (British, circa 1842-op.1876). Loose inside album P.14342-R between P.14342-R-65 and P.14342-R-66. The front page of the Valentine supplement of the periodical, _Bow Bells_, dated March 1, 1870. This title-page lithograph features a scene around a post-box of ladies and gentlemen attempting to post their valentines in secret all at once. Cupids/putti fly around the sky catching swirling valentines and at lower centre, a series of putti/Cupids pull on a ribbon to tie it into a bow. Printed at upper right: [BOW BELLS VALENTINE SUPPLEMENT, MARCH 1, 1870. Printed at lower centre and lower right: [Drawn by Adelaide Claxton.] / A.C.. Printed along the left edge: EXTRA VALENTINE NUMBER OF BOW BELLS. Price One penny [L]ondon: Printed and Published by [J]OHN DI[CK]S, at the Office [?], Strand. On the verso is an article entitled: ST. VALENTINE'S DAY., p.2 of the supplement. Glaisher mentions this supplement in a letter to Catherine Parsons during the period in which she is arranging his valentine albums: 'I had seen what I took to be the wrapper of the Bow Bells supplement on Valentines, but had not turned it over (was it stuck down, I wonder?).'. Fitzwilliam Museum archive, MS 951-1985, 30th May, 1925, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons. Lithography, letterpress, 1870.

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Album. Newspaper cuttings. The Valentine Number of Bow Bells. Valentine supplement. Dicks, John, publisher. Claxton, Adelaide, after (British, circa 1842-op.1876). Loose inside album P.14342-R between P.14342-R-65 and P.14342-R-66. The front page of the Valentine supplement of the periodical, _Bow Bells_, dated March 1, 1870. This title-page lithograph features a scene around a post-box of ladies and gentlemen attempting to post their valentines in secret all at once. Cupids/putti fly around the sky catching swirling valentines and at lower centre, a series of putti/Cupids pull on a ribbon to tie it into a bow. Printed at upper right: [BOW BELLS VALENTINE SUPPLEMENT, MARCH 1, 1870. Printed at lower centre and lower right: [Drawn by Adelaide Claxton.] / A.C.. Printed along the left edge: EXTRA VALENTINE NUMBER OF BOW BELLS. Price One penny [L]ondon: Printed and Published by [J]OHN DI[CK]S, at the Office [?], Strand. On the verso is an article entitled: ST. VALENTINE'S DAY., p.2 of the supplement. Glaisher mentions this supplement in a letter to Catherine Parsons during the period in which she is arranging his valentine albums: 'I had seen what I took to be the wrapper of the Bow Bells supplement on Valentines, but had not turned it over (was it stuck down, I wonder?).'. Fitzwilliam Museum archive, MS 951-1985, 30th May, 1925, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons. Lithography, letterpress, 1870.

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