Valentine card: P.14360-R

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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• Valentine card

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• Print

Description

Comic valentine with moving part. Hand-coloured lithograph on card of white wove paper with an embossed border. A caricature of a greengrocer with an over-sized head, carrying a basket filled with vegetables on his left arm. He holds a bunch of carrots in his right hand which moves up and down when a paper tab at the bottom of the card is pulled. A verse at lower centre: "For you old carrots I don't care a straw, / So reddish your nose by the drink, / Your eyes like two turnips as I ever saw, / Which is quite the greengrocer I think." The inside pages are blank. A partial embossed stamp at lower left: "wi [...]". 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. 72. From a series of moveable valentines which were possibly made by Windsor & Sons (the same mark is seen on another example from the same series, P.14412-R-43). The Glaisher collection contains six of these, four of which are mounted inside album P.14412-R on the same or adjacent album leaf. This card and one other (P.14399-R) were included in the 1995 Fitzwilliam exhibition, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, but were originally mounted inside P.14412-R with the other cards from the series. 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.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928