1592991179000 1487091015000 Standard Record object-215164 1753812203900 1711456671000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-215164 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215164 cb0de14d-eb5f-3683-b767-77a17578b6dc 7 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print reference term-104347 adlib-term-104347 6f889102-d744-3f3f-9cd4-9df0dbce5586 album Paintings, Drawings and Prints A lithograph in black ink with hand colouring in red, green, yellow, brown and blue paint on 4to-size very thin, white wove paper and surrounded by a circular lithographed border of flowers printed in blue ink. At the centre is a caricature of a black man as Dandy, depicted striking a foppish pose and wearing top hat, monocle and striped breeches, promenading arm in arm with an older black woman. A number printed within the illustration at lower left: '36', indicates that this valentine is one of a series. A verse is printed below: 'My dingy dear, when you appear / My heart goes pit-a-pat / So black your face, thick lips to grace / And nose so very flat.'. The interior is blank. One of four valentines from the same series, all with lithographed flower garland borders in blue ink, mounted together in album P.14416-R. Three of these were bought from the second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton (P.14416-R-17, P.14416-R-18 and P.14416-R-20), but P.14416-R-19 was either already owned by Glaisher or purchased later and mounted with the other three in album P.14416-R. P.14416-R-19 1 accession number P.14416-R-19 215164 priref 215164 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215164 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215164 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928 bequeathed 1842 1842 1842 circa 1842 1870 1 1870 1870 circa 1870 publisher reference agent-206638 adlib-agent-206638 998b3b01-bd29-37ea-929b-87d8cfb8c425 Strong, Thomas W. The image references the blackface minstrelsy stereotype of the coon - a comic figure who was characterised as lazy and good-for-little and who was often depicted as a gaudily-dressed Dandy who put on airs. The verse is part of a ballad found in Valentine writers of the period, titled variously 'To a Blackamoor' (or in American valentine publisher, Thomas W. Strong's 'Comic Valentine Writer', to 'a black') and published in 19th-century valentine writers, such as here: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/roud/V21030 [Accessed 7 June 2022]. See also P.14416-R-12, where the second part of the same verse is ascribed to a comic Valentine caricature of a black woman. reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference media-204190 adlib-media-204190 dd582ccd-248b-3dd6-bdc8-f0a883ec5503 jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 757 1658763018324 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 676 width pixels 500 1658763018324 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 757 1658763018324 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 338 width pixels 250 1658763018324 1 image 0 media image reference term-104408 adlib-term-104408 8f88fdfb-ee46-3100-aefc-6466cf9ce5d9 Valentine card reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Example of the same T.W. Strong comic valentine in the collection of Norcross Greeting Card Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution Fig. 1.11 pp. 50-52 reference publication-8882 adlib-publication-8882 f706769e-2774-3f2a-84e8-c1043fbc7768 A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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