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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A lithograph with hand colouring on 8vo-size white wove paper. A hand-coloured lithographed border of stylised leaves, vines and flowers surrounds a central hand-coloured vignette of a courting couple on a country path, Cupid hiding in the bushes at the far left and a church seen in the distance on the right. A verse is printed above and below in sloping script: 'I never seek my Couch at night / Unless for thee a prayer I breathe; / and oft in sleep thy image bright, / Sweet smile and laughing eyes soft light. / around my soul their witcheries wreathe / ... I muse on thee and softly say / When fate shall take our lives away, / Oh! may we meet again in heaven.'. 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 P.14416-R-51, '8 for £1-4-0' probably relates to that found on the 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), where P.14416-R-51 is listed and bracketed with 7 other similar valentines from album P.14416-R, including P.14416-R-58, and which are priced at '8 for £1-4-0'. In addition to P.14416-R-51 and P.14416-R-58 the others listed are: P.14416-R-52, P.14416-R-53, P.14416-R-54, P.14416-R-56, P.14416-R-59 and P.14416-R-60. Four further valentines from this group are also found on the Frampton list, bracketed together and priced at 10 shillings for the four. See P.14416-R-55, P.14416-R-57, P.14416-R-61 and P.14416-R-62.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1820
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Circa
1830
Accession number: P.14416-R-58
Primary reference Number: 215203
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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