1592991122000 1439475360000 Standard Record object-206602 1753812189173 1711455705000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-206602 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206602 d175b59f-8104-3727-8760-c05485ac80e3 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 Valentine card of cream laid paper, roughly 8vo size with a lithograph of black ink (uncoloured). A rebus valentine printed within a rectangular border of leaves punctuated with quivers of arrows, bows and flaming hearts. The title is printed in upper-case, double-edged lettering: "CURIOUS HIEROGLYPHICK VALENTINE". The translation of the rebus is as follows: "Fair is the morning the bird leaves its nest / and sings a salute to the crown. / The sun in full splendor embroiders the east / and brightens the dew on the lawn. / Tis Valentines day and my love I address / This page can boast of a flame / So pure and so true I want words to express / but I ask you to give it a name, / And while my dear love on this page you gaze / heave a sigh for a heart that is true. / And believe that it such warm affection conveys / as exists for no other but you." The inside pages are blank. The John Johnson Collection (Bodleian Library, Oxford) holds a hand-coloured example of this rebus valentine, which is dated circa 1840s. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8493000/8493948.stm. The John Johnson Collection example is also reproduced in Frank Staff, _The Valentine & Its Origins_ (1969), no. 97, p.77.The Fitzwilliam version is clearly a later reprint and is one of a series of cards on cream laid paper with uncoloured lithographs, apparently all later reprints, mounted together in album P.14348-R. P.14348-R-14 1 accession number P.14348-R-14 206602 priref 206602 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206602 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206602 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 printmaker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference media-203353 adlib-media-203353 db48bc89-24ed-3699-b419-41bc04aeab20 jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_14_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 740 1742598617521 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14348_R_14_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 692 width pixels 500 1742598617521 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_14_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 740 1742598617521 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14348_R_14_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 346 width pixels 250 1742598617521 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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