IDENTIFIERS
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id:	214369
accession number:	P.14345-R-84

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 14 February 2017
updated:	Wednesday 3 February 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Comic Valentine. Tinted lithograph, printed in black and red ink on a long sheet of folded thin, wove paper in a format known as a 'long comic'. A grotesque image of a woman with a snake's head appearing from her mouth and a snake's body instead of legs and feet below. A printed verse below: "Old gal, I'm pretty wide awake, and I'm not going to wed a snake, / To marry thee I'd be an ass, you ugly reptile on the grass." The style and subject of this Valentine is comparable with examples held by Grosvenor Prints, 19 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JN [http://www.grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?keyword=Valentines&WADbSearch1=Submit&cat_id=21&cat_select=488] which are dated c.1870. The theme of the Valentine as a 'snake in the grass' is seen in another example: P.14345-R-52, which shows a male figure in the role. The subject seems to have been quite common.
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/214369





TECHNIQUES
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lithography

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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creation date:	1870 - 1880
creation date earliest:	1870
creation date latest:	1880
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Object of My Affection: Stories of Love from the Fitzwilliam Collection
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