IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215175 accession number: P.14416-R-30 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215175 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_30_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 855 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_30_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 599 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_30_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 855 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_30_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 299 pixels width: 250 pixels