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Valentine card
Publisher: Sulman, Benjamin
Small 48mo-size card of embossed paper with shaped edges tinted dark pink. Embossed, chromolithographed scraps affixed at centre and upper centre: A woman leading a man with a stag's head, viewed from behind. (The horns indicating that the man is a cuckold); a bouquet of flowers with the motto: CONSTANCY. Embossed stamps at upper and lower centre: LONDON / SULMAN. The inside pages are blank. On the verso, inscriptions in graphite: ' '_The [Hans? or Horns?]_' / scarce type'; '2' at top left corner. This information is transcribed onto the leaf of album P.14412-R, where this card was originally mounted. From a series of comic cards by Sulman and originally affixed to the same leaf in album P.14412-R with four others. See P.14412-R-96, P.14412-R-97, P.14412-R-99 and also P.14370-R. This card 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. 78.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1860
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1870
Accession number: P.14359-R
Primary reference Number: 214524
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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