IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214735 accession number: P.14412-R-11 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comic valentine on the subject of the crinoline. 18mo-size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured wood engraving of a young woman with a doll-like face wearing a flounced pink skirt over a crinoline and lifting it suggestively. A doll hangs from a hook in the right foreground. A printed verse with sexual undertones below: "The tender passion burns within / My heart unto the core / But then my dear I've got no tin, / And you're a doll, nought more.". The inside pages are blank. Mounted on the same album leaf as other similar cards, all of the same size and relating to the subject of crinolines. The same verse and similar illustration seen on another card, P.14412-R-3, in the same album. It seems quite likely that the series of valentines on the subject of crinolines which are mounted together in album P.14412-R were purchased by Glaisher from the Actons of Brighton in 1924. In a letter to Miss Catherine Parsons dated 19th November 1924, Glaisher states: 'I am enclosing some valentines sent me on appro [approval] from Miss Acton of Brighton: they are 3/- each or £2.10 for the lot. They all relate to the crinoline period 1860 ... There are some duplicates tht [that] you could relieve me of if I take the set which may be the best to do.'. Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 905-1985, 19th November, 1924, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214735 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- wood engraving CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_11_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 875 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14412_R_11_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 585 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_11_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 875 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14412_R_11_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 293 pixels width: 250 pixels