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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Small 48mo playing-card-style 'men and flowers' themed comic valentine with a die-stamped 'lace' edge. A chromolithograph with rounded corners affixed to the centre of 'lace'-edged white card, features a young gentleman on bended knee, his face at the centre of a large pink rose with leaves around his shoulders. A scrap affixed above with the motto: YOURS / EVER. On the verso: "[Floral?] / type" written in graphite. "4" written in graphite. "1840s" written very faintly in graphite. From a series featuring men with flowers or as hybrid flowers and originally mounted in album P.14412-R as one of nine from the same series. P.14412-R-88 and P.14412-R-91 are duplicates, although all have different mottoes and P.14412-R-88 has a gilt embossed border rather than a 'lace' edge. The quality of the art-work in this series is high, although neither the artist nor the manufacturer are known. Almost certainly originally contained inside a cream envelope found loose on the same leaf of the album and inscribed in hand-written black ink: "Flower type / c. 184-" and "8" written in blue crayon. 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. 75. 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
1840
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1850
Accession number: P.14361-R
Primary reference Number: 214526
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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