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Valentine card
Publisher: S. Marks & Sons
Comic valentine. A hand-coloured lithograph on cream wove paper with applied textile. The backing paper has been removed and the edges shaped. A woman in the street wearing a red coat and hooped skirt which shows her ankles and boots; a house and iron railings behind and a man in a blue coat behind and to the left, staring at her through a monocle. The textile skirt lifts up to reveal the hoop and lacy petticoats. A printed verse below: "She was fine outside and rags within, / He a soft and simple swain, / She caught him like a silly fly, / By showing her legs and leering her eye." S. Marks & Sons / Houndsditch, London, printed at lower left and right. This is a duplicate of P.14345-R-23 (although with different colours in each) and from the same series as P.14345-R-25 and P.14379-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. 82. 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
1850
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1860
Accession number: P.14365-R
Primary reference Number: 214530
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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