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Valentine card
Publisher: S. Marks & Sons
Comic valentine. A hand-coloured lithograph on white wove paper with applied textile. The upper edges have been shaped. A woman boards an omnibus, the door held open for her by a man in a grey coat. The textile skirt lifts up to reveal the hoop and lacy petticoats. A printed verse below: "Oh! Mr Conductor don't look this way, / And what you may see pray do not say, / No Miss indeed that never would pay; / I should loose all my fares 2d all the way." S. Marks & Sons / Houndsditch, London, printed at lower left and right. A duplicate of P.14345-R-25 (although each with different colouring) and from the same series as P.14345-R-23 and P.14365-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. 83.
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
Applied textile
Hand colouring
Lithography
Accession number: P.14379-R
Primary reference Number: 214544
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Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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