IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214292 accession number: P.14345-R-7 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A preparatory drawing in graphite with tonal contrasts in grey wash on cream wove paper for a comic valentine. The older female figure depicted is viewed in profile to the right, lifting up her skirts with her right hand and carrying an umbrella in her left. She wears a bonnet and her nose is large and bulbous and coloured with grey wash (presumably to be coloured crimson in the hand finishing of the print). A hand-written inscription in black ink at upper left: "Mr Marks / Please to give my daughter / the cash for th[...] / yours WH". One of a group bought at a sale, the catalogue clipping affixed to the same album leaf: "749 - Original wash Valentine Drawings - A collection of 8 executed for Messrs. Marks & Co. by BRITTAIN ...". This group of valentines was 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. See P.14529-R. See also P.14345-R-3 - P.14345-R-6 and P.14345-R-8 - P.14345-R-10, for the other valentines in this group. The drawings were probably produced for S. Marks & Sons, who specialised in comic valentines during the 1850s. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214292 TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- wash (grey) TECHNIQUES ---------- graphite CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: S. Marks & Sons IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14345_R_7_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 930 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14345_R_7_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 551 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14345_R_7_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 930 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14345_R_7_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 275 pixels width: 250 pixels