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Valentine card: P.14416-R-20

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Strong, Thomas W.

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Description

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 of the border is a scene of a young woman tying her boot on a tree stump watched by a young man wearing a top hat, who stands behind a tree to the left. The cheeks of the two figures are coloured pink. A castle on a hill is seen in the distance on the right. A number printed within the illustration at lower left: '50', indicates that this valentine is one of a series. A verse is printed below: 'Untill [sic] I thought St. Valentine / Might be my friend and you incline / To favor me your constant lover / Who thus his wishes do discover.'. 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. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below P.14416-R-17 was probably transcribed from a hand-written MS by second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found loose on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1). The MS lists P.14416-R-17, P.14416-R-18 and P.14416-R-20 as a group of three and brackets them together with the price 'the three for 10/6'. P.14416-R-19 is a fourth example from the same series mounted beside the others, which Glaisher either already owned or bought at a later date.

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 1842 - Circa 1870

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14416-R-20
Primary reference Number: 215165

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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