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Valentine card: P.14414-R-L3

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Loose inside album P.14414-R after the first leaf inside a large brown manila envelope with one other valentine, P.14414-R-L1. One of two lithographed and hand-coloured comic valentines with clippings of letterpress text below from the same series of lonely hearts adverts which have been cut out separately from their original location and mounted onto a sheet of brown wove paper. An image of an old, spinster-type with a long face who wears round spectacles. Pasted below is a clipping of letterpress text: 'A MIDDLE-AGED LADY, of most genteel appearance ... would be happy to correspond with a Gentleman of similar age ... Address "Miss Thinstitch, Antiquated Alley." '. Two inscriptions in graphite written onto the brown paper secondary support below most likely originate with a dealer: '1840'; '3/ the 2 [3 shillings for the pair]'. P.14414-R-L3 is mounted beside P.14414-R-L2 on the same sheet of brown paper.

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
Production date: circa AD 1840

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Letterpress
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14414-R-L3
Primary reference Number: 215129
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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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