1592991157000 1487090858000 Standard Record object-214456 1753812197476 1711456570000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-214456 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214456 bbaf8e00-ef31-3d9d-af6b-be500e352d3e 5 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print reference term-104347 adlib-term-104347 6f889102-d744-3f3f-9cd4-9df0dbce5586 album Paintings, Drawings and Prints 4to-sized thin, white wove paper printed with a decorative woodcut border incorporating a bee motif at all four corners. The border has been delicately tinted with a grey wash. A hand-coloured woodcut at the centre shows a couple on their way to church to be married. The female figure wears a veil and her partner gestures towards a distant church with his left arm. Verses above and below the central image: "My dear delightful Valentine, / No language can the [sic] charms express, / And I must make thy beauties mine, / Ere I can taste true happiness, ... ". Printed at lower centre: "London S, Marks and Sons.". A white sticker with a blue border is affixed to the recto at upper right with hand-written inscription in black ink: "H X". The inside pages are blank. From a series. One of 7 prints of a similar style bought at auction. A clipping from the sale catalogue is pasted to the album leaf below P.14346-R-63: "Old Valentines - continued / 752 Coloured Sentimental Examples - 7in / all, 4to size, 1 pubd. By A. Park, of Fins- / bury, the others by S. Marks and Son, / each with blank fly-sheet, and coloured / woodcut borders, nice state, 185 - 17s 6d / ...". This group of valentines appears to have been bought in 1924 from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. The bookseller's catalogue (No. 35), with several lot descriptions cut from it, was found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. It should be noted that there are two examples by A. Park in the group. See also: P.14346-R-63; P.14346-R-64; P.14346-R-65; P.14346-R-66; P.14346-R-67; P.14346-R-68. The V&A also holds examples of these prints with bee motif woodcut borders that were produced by S. Marks: See E.2046-1953 and E.2062-1953, which have been given a date of circa 1850. P.14346-R-70 1 accession number P.14346-R-70 214456 priref 214456 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214456 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214456 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928 bequeathed 1850 1850 circa 1850 publisher reference agent-194286 adlib-agent-194286 365d4aa2-7d84-3634-85d6-33886ef1636d S. Marks & Sons reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference media-203300 adlib-media-203300 9aa38cb4-21d8-33b6-b6b9-73c3fa87c15e jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_70_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 718 1742598619709 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14346_R_70_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 713 width pixels 500 1742598619709 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_70_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 718 1742598619709 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14346_R_70_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 357 width pixels 250 1742598619709 1 image 0 media image reference term-104408 adlib-term-104408 8f88fdfb-ee46-3100-aefc-6466cf9ce5d9 Valentine card reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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