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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 couple at the shrine of love, a church in the background on the left. A woman wearing a pink dress stretches out to Hymen who holds a red heart in his right hand. Another heart is already aflame on the shrine. A male figure stands on the left. 'No 7' is lithographed at the lower right of the image, indicating that this design is one of a series. A verse is printed below in sloping script: 'Love sheds a pure and holy light / On us, with heavenly halo bright / Vowing by day, and still by night / Eternal truth and faith to plight, / Sacred alone to Hymen's right ...'. 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-59, and which are priced at '8 for £1-4-0'. In addition to P.14416-R-51 and P.14416-R-59 the others listed are: P.14416-R-52, P.14416-R-53, P.14416-R-54, P.14416-R-56, P.14416-R-58 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.
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Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
