IDENTIFIERS
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id:	206602
accession number:	P.14348-R-14

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 13 August 2015
updated:	Friday 26 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	Valentine card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206602





TECHNIQUES
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lithograph

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


IMAGES

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surrogate: mid
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surrogate: original
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surrogate: preview
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