IDENTIFIERS
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id:	214292
accession number:	P.14345-R-7

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 14 February 2017
updated:	Friday 26 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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/214292





TECHNIQUES
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pen and ink
TECHNIQUES
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wash (grey)
TECHNIQUES
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graphite

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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creation date:	1850 - 1860
creation date earliest:	1850
creation date latest:	1860
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: S. Marks & Sons


IMAGES

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