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Faith, Truth: P.14416-R-49

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Titles

Faith, Truth
Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

An acrostic valentine. A lithograph with hand colouring on 8vo-size thin, white wove paper. A lithographed border of stylised leaves and flowers surrounds a hand-coloured scene in a garden of a lady wearing a pink dress with the boy, Hymen and a flaming torch to the right. The words 'FAITH' and 'TRUTH' are drawn as double-edged, stylised letters around the same theme as the border. 'No 3' is lithographed at the lower right of the image, indicating that this design is one of a series. Two verses in the form of an acrostic are printed in a sloping script at lower centre . The first letters of each line of the first verse spell out the word 'FAITH' and the first letters of each line of the second verse spell out the words, 'TRUTH': 'F-air as the Sun at early rise / A -nd beauteous as the summer skies, / I -prize the joys that Hymen brings, / T-o me more wealth than ere hath Kings / H-ear me for Life & Love hath wings: ...'. The interior is blank. One of a series of similar designs in the same style which are mounted on consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '2/6 [2 shillings sixpence]'. This pricing was probably transcribed from the handwritten MS by second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1), where P.14416-R-49 is listed and priced at 2/6.

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 1820 - Circa 1830

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14416-R-49
Primary reference Number: 215194

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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