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Valentine card: P.14347-R-L10

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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Description

Loose within album P.14347-R. A lithograph on 4to-sized wove paper with a large, hand-coloured vignette at upper centre featuring a soldier and a lady on a path in a landscape, the soldier pointing with his right hand to a church in the distance on the left. Below, an illuminated letter begins a printed verse: "Light of my soul, my faithful Page, / My messenger, Lover's war to wage: …". The inside pages are blank. One of a series. Other numbers from the same series are: P.14347-R-L9, P.14347-R-L11, P.14347-R-L12, P.14347-R-L13 (L11-L13 are duplicates), P.14347-R-L14, P.14346-R-24 and P.14346-R-25 (which features a sailor).

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14347-R-L10
Primary reference Number: 206581
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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