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Oh, what a dove!: P.14412-R-105

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Oh, what a dove!
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: J.T. Wood & Co

Entities

Categories

Description

Comic valentine. Small playing card-size card with a hand-coloured lithograph of a female figure lifting her skirt and carrying a parasol with a glazed, chromolithographed head of a bird wearing a straw bonnet applied over the original lithographed head. A motto printed below: 'OH, WHAT A DOVE!'. 'J.T. WOOD' printed at lower left. From a series of comic figures with animal heads by J.T. Wood. See also P.14412-R-104, which is mounted on the same album leaf.

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
1840 - 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14412-R-105
Primary reference Number: 214829
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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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