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Valentine card
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A lithograph with hand colouring on 8vo-size white wove paper. A hand-coloured lithographed border of stylised leaves, vines, flowers and lighthouse motif surrounds a central hand-coloured vignette of a sailor leaning against a stone plinth, wearing a top hat, white trousers and navy blue jacket and carrying a sword against his left leg. A ship at sea is seen in the background on the right. 'No 6' is lithographed at the lower right of the image, indicating that this design is one of a series. A verse is printed above and below in sloping script: 'Son of the Ocean, fierce and wild, / List to the voice of Love's own child, / Reefer of many a maidens heart / Behold how true a Counterpart / ... Oh, may no breakers intervene / To mar the light of the sunny scene, / My heart speaks more than my tongue may tell / As Hymen the Pilot singsforth [sic] 'All's well.'. The interior is blank. The same lighthouse motif is seen in another naval-themed design from the same series, P.14416-R-55. One of a series of similar designs in the same style which are mounted on consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R. This card is listed with three of these designs, P.14416-R-55, P.14416-R-57 and P.14416-R-61, in a handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R (P.14416-R-L1), with all four bracketed together and priced as 'the four for 10/0 [10 shillings]'. Eight further valentines from this group are also found on the Frampton list, bracketed together and priced at '8 for £1-4-0'. See P.14416-R-51, P.14416-R-52, P.14416-R-53 and P.14416-R-54, P.14416-R-56, P.14416-R-58, P.14416-R-59 and P.14416-R-60.
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Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
