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Likenesses taken in this style: P.14394-R

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Likenesses taken in this style
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: J.L. Marks

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Description

Hand-coloured wood engraving on a single sheet of very thin wove paper with the title above in letterpress: LIKENESSES TAKEN IN THIS STYLE. A particularly bawdy verse printed below: "Dear Madam, in this picture fair / Your likeness you have got / Sweet lips, bright eyes, and here and there / A little beauty-spot. / I do not say you are the Queen / Of Beauty bright and fair; / But then, you know, I have not seen / The charms you have - somewhere!". Underlinings in pen and black ink in the verse and letters gone over in pen and ink at lower centre where the engraving ink has not taken. "J.L. Marks" printed underneath the verse at lower centre. The paper has been folded into quarters. 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. 76.

Legal notes

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

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
1860 - 1870

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Wood engraving

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Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14394-R
Primary reference Number: 214559

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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