Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Valentine with moving part (operating tab is missing). Hand-coloured lithograph on 32mo-size white wove paper with an embossed border. A male tailor sitting crossed-legged on a floor, an iron to his left. The character is engaged in stitching the piece of blue fabric in his lap. A tab would have originally moved the man's right arm up and down to convey the action of stitching. A printed verse below: "Thing of humanity ninth part of a man, / A creature of cabbage and stitches, / Whose occupation from morning to night, / Is mending other men's breeches.". The inside pages are blank. From a series of moveable valentines which were possibly made by Windsor & Sons. The Glaisher collection contains six of these, four of which are mounted inside album P.14412-R on the same or adjacent album leaf. The other two were included in the 1995 Fitzwilliam exhibition, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, but were originally mounted inside P.14412-R with the other cards from the series.
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
1860
Accession number: P.14412-R-44
Primary reference Number: 214768
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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