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Valentine card: P.14345-R-32

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Comic valentine (plasterer). A hand coloured woodcut on very thin wove paper, which is folded in half to create an inside page (blank). The hand colouring is crudely executed. A figure with an over-sized head and large, red nose holds a plasterer's brush in his right hand and a ladder in his left. He wears a large, flat, peaked cap on his head. A printed verse below: "A dunder-headed Plasterer, / Depicted to the view, / With ladder, brush and plaster, / Is very much like you." From a series of comic figures.

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
Woodcut

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Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14345-R-32
Primary reference Number: 214317
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Wednesday 3 February 2021 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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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214317 Accessed: 2024-11-21 23:14:13

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