1592991157000 1487090857000 Standard Record object-214452 1753812195812 1711456570000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-214452 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214452 97120738-6ba5-3da6-997b-0a248fd7e5de 5 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print reference term-104347 adlib-term-104347 6f889102-d744-3f3f-9cd4-9df0dbce5586 album Paintings, Drawings and Prints 4to-sized thin, white wove paper printed with a decorative woodcut border incorporating a bee motif at all four corners. The border has been delicately tinted with a grey wash. A hand-coloured woodcut at the centre shows a couple making music together on a garden bench whilst Cupid, hovering in a cloud to the left, pulls back his bow to fire an arrow at the couple. The seated female figure appears to be playing a colascione, an instrument associated with the Italian commedia dell'arte in the 16th century and which was adopted in France and Germany during the 18th-century as a bass continuo instrument (i.e. as a bass line accompaniment to a melody as sung by the male figure in this woodcut). It is therefore an unusual inclusion in a 19th-century English print and indicates that maybe the woodcut composition was either imported from Germany or influenced by 18th or 19th-century German engravings showing this instrument being played. Verses above and below the central image: "Dear Valentine, my love, my friend, / To thee these lovely lines I send: ...". Printed at lower centre: "London S, Marks and Sons.". The inside pages are blank. From a series. One of 7 prints of a similar style bought at auction. A clipping from the sale catalogue is pasted to the album leaf below P.14346-R-63: "Old Valentines - continued / 752 Coloured Sentimental Examples - 7in / all, 4to size, 1 pubd. By A. Park, of Fins- / bury, the others by S. Marks and Son, / each with blank fly-sheet, and coloured / woodcut borders, nice state, 185 - 17s 6d / ...". There are two examples by A. Park in the group. One of these was most likely bought by Glaisher at a later date and positioned by him alongside the exisiting print. See also: P.14346-R-63; P.14346-R-64; P.14346-R-65; P.14346-R-67; P.14346-R-68; P.14346-R-70. The V&A also holds examples of these prints with bee motif woodcut borders that were produced by S. Marks: See E.2046-1953 and E.2062-1953, which have been given a date of circa 1850. P.14346-R-66 1 accession number P.14346-R-66 214452 priref 214452 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214452 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214452 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928 bequeathed 1850 1850 1850 1850 1860 1 1860 1860 1860 publisher reference agent-194286 adlib-agent-194286 365d4aa2-7d84-3634-85d6-33886ef1636d S. Marks & Sons reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference media-203295 adlib-media-203295 a13adfc7-2ed6-3fec-bf11-5b9ec7a169c6 jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_66_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 696 1742598591751 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14346_R_66_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 736 width pixels 500 1742598591751 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_66_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 696 1742598591751 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14346_R_66_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 368 width pixels 250 1742598591751 1 image 0 media image reference term-104408 adlib-term-104408 8f88fdfb-ee46-3100-aefc-6466cf9ce5d9 Valentine card reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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