IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214763 accession number: P.14412-R-39 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comic valentine. 18mo-size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured woodcut of a woman wearing a short crinoline skirt, with applied textile, which is slipped in through a slit in the paper from the verso. The textile lifts up to show the crinoline hoop and the woman's drawers. A printed verse below: "Ears like Donkey, Eyes like cat / To be genteel, you are too fat / While there's another in the land / I'll never claim your mutton hand.". The inside pages are blank. "WOOD" embossed at lower left. Similar to other cards by J.T. Wood with applied textile mounted nearby in the same album. See P.14412-R-12 and P.14412-R-19. It seems quite likely that the series of valentines on the subject of crinolines which are mounted together in album P.14412-R were purchased by Glaisher from the Actons of Brighton in 1924. In a letter to Miss Catherine Parsons dated 19th November 1924, Glaisher states: 'I am enclosing some valentines sent me on appro [approval] from Miss Acton of Brighton: they are 3/- each or £2.10 for the lot. They all relate to the crinoline period 1860 ... There are some duplicates tht [that] you could relieve me of if I take the set which may be the best to do.'. Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 905-1985, 19th November, 1924, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214763 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: J.T. Wood & Co IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 860 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14412_R_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 595 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 860 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14412_R_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 298 pixels width: 250 pixels