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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A hand-coloured lithograph on 4to-size white wove paper. A woman wearing a grey dress with red trimmings sits underneath trees surrounded by shrubbery and looks towards the left. She holds a letter in her right hand. A verse is printed below: 'Delightful Love! with thee I hail / The season of sweet flowers, ... / Ever loving and possessing / Love, I'll live and die with thee!'. The interior is blank. One of eight examples from the same series which are mounted together, consecutively in album P.14416-R. The lithographic style of all eight reproduces a loose and fluid pastel drawing. This card is one of six listed as a group in a handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R. See P.14416-R-L1. The group is bracketed together and priced as 'the six for £1.1/0'. The other cards in the group of six are: P.14416-R-6, P.14416-R-7, P.14416-R-8, P.14416-R-9, P.14416-R-10. The remaining two cards in the larger group of eight are listed separately in the Frampton MS, bracketed together and priced at '2 for 7/0'. See P.14416-R-5 and P.14416-R-11.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1830
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Circa
1840
Accession number: P.14416-R-4
Primary reference Number: 215149
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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