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How to Cook a Heart Valentine card
Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co
Comic valentine on white wove paper with shaped edge and embossed border with inner lithographed border and central decorative oval frame printed in green ink. A trimmed chromolithograph at the centre features a Cupid dressed as a chef cooking a heart over a grate suspended on a meat hook. A printed 'method' and 'recipe' below in purple ink: "HOW TO COOK A HEART / This elegant and savoury dish, if carefully cooked, is an agreeable and / important addition to the table; but when hastily or negligently pre- /pared, is flavourless, tough and disappointing. ...". WOOD embossed at lower centre. The inside pages are blank.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1850
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Circa
1880
Accession number: P.14412-R-38
Primary reference Number: 214762
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "How to Cook a Heart" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214762 Accessed: 2024-11-24 21:58:34
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