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Propriety personified Valentine card
Publisher: S. Marks & Sons
Changeable Valentine. A hand-coloured lithograph on white wove paper with a cut-out figure of a woman wearing a tyrolean hat and sour expression. The cut-out lifts up to reveal ice-cream in a sundae glass. Entitled below: "PROPRIETY PERSONIFIED". A printed verse below: "You're very nice though somewhat old, / And I should say you're rather cold, / Your looks a penny ice would freeze. / Or cause an Esquimaux to sneeze." The inside pages are blank. From a series of 15 Valentines with figures which lift to reveal their true characters which were bought at a sale, lot 590. See clipping from sale catalogue pasted to the album leaf below P.14345-R-54: "Coloured Changeable Valentines of the 60's, pubd. by Marks, etc. ..." This group of valentines appears to have been bought in 1924 from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. The bookseller's catalogue (No. 36), with several lot descriptions cut from it, was found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. 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. 87.
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.14388-R
Primary reference Number: 214553
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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