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How to Cook a Heart: P.14412-R-38

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Titles

How to Cook a Heart
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co

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Description

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.

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
Circa 1850 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14412-R-38
Primary reference Number: 214762

Audit data

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

Associated departments & institutions

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

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