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Cupid's Grammar of Love Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Small 64mo-size white card with embossed border and scalloped edges. A 'book' of cream card affixed at the centre with a lithographed cover design tinted in blue and yellow: CUPID'S / GRAMMAR / OF / LOVE. Within medallion at centre: POTENTIAL MOOD / IMPERFECT TENSE / SINGULAR. Inside the 'book' on the right-hand 'page' is a tinted lithograph in sepia with hand-colouring of a woman whipping a gentleman wearing a top hat, checked trousers and smoking a cigarette. Printed on the white card backing at upper and lower centre: "He will not love, do / all I can, / I ne'er shall make of / him a man." From a series and one of six in the collection, four of which are mounted onto the same leaf in album P.14412-R. P.14357-R and one other, P.14373-R were also originally mounted onto the same leaf of album P.14412-R. All six cards were almost certainly originally contained inside a cream envelope found loose on the same leaf of the album and inscribed in hand-written black ink: "Grammar of Love, / Set of 6 / (_Possibly unique_) / c. 183-". The envelope possibly originated with a dealer who was sending Glaisher valentines on approval. This valentine was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 81. This valentine was one of 12 included in the exhibition about J.W.L. Glaisher as collector, _James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ScD, FRS (1848-1928) Mathematician and Collector_, held in the Octagon Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1999, Case 9. The selection repeated that of the 1995 exhibition.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1830
-
1840
Accession number: P.14357-R
Primary reference Number: 214522
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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