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The Grammar of Love: P.14412-R-94

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Grammar of Love
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Comic valentine. Small 64mo-size white card with embossed border and scalloped edges. A 'book' of cream card affixed at the centre with a lithographed cover design tinted in blue and yellow: THE / GRAMMAR / OF / LOVE. Within medallion at centre: INDICATIVE MOOD / PRESENT TENSE / SINGULAR. Inside the 'book' on the right-hand 'page' is a tinted lithograph in sepia with hand-colouring of a man on his knees before a woman, captioned above: I LOVE. Printed on the white card backing at upper and lower centre: "I love, you may believe / it true / I cannot love elsewhere / but you." From a series and one of six in the collection, four of which are mounted onto the same leaf in album P.14412-R. P.14357-R and P.14373-R were also originally mounted onto the same leaf of album P.14412-R. All six cards were almost certainly originally contained inside a cream envelope found loose on the same leaf of the album and inscribed in hand-written black ink: "Grammar of Love, / Set of 6 / (_Possibly unique_) / c. 183-". The envelope possibly originated with a dealer who was sending Glaisher valentines on approval.

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 1830 - 1840

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14412-R-94
Primary reference Number: 214818
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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