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Valentine card: P.14416-R-30

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

Comic valentine relating to the occupation of coal mining. 4to-size thin, white wove paper with a hand-coloured lithograph of a pitman who stands beside a pit railway with a pick-axe over his right shoulder and a shovel in his left hand. The figure wears a blue jacket and blue cap with a red feather in it. A verse is printed below: 'Fair maiden can you love poor me? / A canny Pitman, as you see; / With face so black and outside rough / My heart is made of the right stuff; / And if but to church you will ride / And be a swarthy Pitman's bride / While waters flow in Tees on Tyne / I'll seek no other valentine'. The interior is blank. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '3/6 [3 shillings and sixpence]'. This presumably records a price from the verso which was visible prior to mounting.

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 1840 - Circa 1850

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14416-R-30
Primary reference Number: 215175

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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