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Valentine card: P.14416-R-26

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Valentine card

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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 leaves, roses, putti, flaming hearts, Cupid's quiver and bow and Hymen's flaming torch printed in blue ink. At the centre of the border is a young man standing beside a tree on a hill, holding his top hat in his left hand. Fields lie behind him below. A number printed within the illustration at lower left: '32', indicates that this valentine is one of a series. A verse is printed below: 'Dear Youth excuse the answer of a maid / Your passion now I know by what you've said / Now I'm convinced your love's sublime and true / Such as I always wish'd to find on you'. The interior is blank. One of six valentines from the same series, all with the same printed border, and mounted consecutively in album P.14416-R. P.14416-R-26 is listed 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), bracketed together with the 5 other cards from the same series and priced as 'the six for £1.4/6 [£1, 4 shillings and sixpence]'. The other 5 cards in the group are: P.14416-R-22, P.14416-R-23, P.14416-R-24, P.14416-R-25 and P.14416-R-27.

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 1830 - Circa 1840

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14416-R-26
Primary reference Number: 215171

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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