These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Postcard-style comic valentine. A lithograph in black ink against a grey background with gilt edging and motto in gold ink below. A female figure with an over-sized head and hairstyle, who is propositioning the viewed by gesturing with her right hand and pulling up her skirts to show her ankle with her left. A printed motto below: "Are you? What you / would make believe - ". One of a series and one of eight examples mounted on the same leaf in album P.14412-R. A handwritten inscription in graphite on the album leaf at lower right (the same hand as seen elsewhere in the Glaisher valentines bequest, but not belonging to Glaisher): "Original price [?9]". These inscriptions were made by Miss Catherine Parsons who was a close friend of Glaisher towards the end of his life and undertook to arrange and mount his valentine collection into albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond. See letters from Glaisher to Parsons in the Fitzwilliam Museum archive.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1870
-
Circa
1900
Accession number: P.14412-R-52
Primary reference Number: 214776
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214776 Accessed: 2024-04-16 23:21:49
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214776
|title=Valentine card
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-16 23:21:49|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-214776
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_52_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg"
alt="Valentine card"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Valentine card</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Accession Number: P.14591-R
Accession Number: P.14583-R
Accession Number: P.14342-R-65
Accession Number: P.14349-R-2
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
