IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214768 accession number: P.14412-R-44 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Monday 29 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/214768 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown