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Valentine card
Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co
Comic valentine on the subject of a trade. Very small, 48mo size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured lithograph of a young man with a large nose and arching pose unrolling fabric on a shop counter for a pair of female customers. Printed verse below: "Young gentleman with a lubberly face / you suppose the Ladies think you divine / with your feminine ways you [sic] manhood disgrace / you'r [sic] [?poison] my sweet Valentine". The inside pages are blank. "WOOD" embossed (faintly) at lower right. One of a series of small comic cards by J.T. Wood with embossed borders and hand-coloured lithographs on the subject of trades, sixteen of which are mounted as a group in album P.14412-R, along with three loose duplicates.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Probably
1850
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1860
Accession number: P.14412-R-31
Primary reference Number: 214755
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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