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Connubial Felicity Valentine card
Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co
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.
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-37
Primary reference Number: 214761
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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