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Connubial Felicity: P.14412-R-37

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Connubial Felicity
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co

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Description

Comic valentine of the changeable 'before and after' type with second illustration inside. 18mo-size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured lithograph of a couple, with linked arms dressed for outdoors. Another hand-coloured lithograph on the right-hand inside page shows the same couple indoors acting out a scene of marital strife. A printed verse below: "Tis sweet to see two loving hearts / Bound in Hymens silken Bands / In union of feeling those two Hearts / were joined as well as hands". "J.T. Wood 278, [Strand]" printed at lower left and right. Additionally embossed "WOOD" at lower left. From a series of 'changeable' valentines by J.T. Wood, six of which are mounted onto adjacent leaves of the same album. See P.14412-R-15, P.14412-R-16, P.14412-R-17, P.14412-R-18 and P.14412-R-20.

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
Probably 1850 - 1860

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14412-R-37
Primary reference Number: 214761

Audit data

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

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

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