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Valentine card: P.14416-R-63

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

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Valentine card

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Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A lithograph with hand colouring in pink, green, orange and brown on 8vo-size white wove paper. A baroque-style frame design incorporating roses and putti of two roundels, the upper, smaller roundel containing a verse: 'Yes, yes; I promise by yon Star / Sole witness of our mutual love / tho thou art distant from me far, / Thy form all other forms above / Alone shall reign in this fond heart of mine / Till time perishes thee my Sweet Valentine'. P.14416-R-65 employs the same verse. In the larger lower roundel is a scene of a gentleman kneeling before a seated lady in pink beside a tree. A church spire rises above trees in the distance on the left. The front is adhered to the back at upper and lower right corners. One of three valentines in the same style and design and employing the same colours which are mounted together on consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R. See also P.14416-R-64 and P.14416-R-65. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the verso of P.14416-R-64 indicates that all three valentines were purchased at 2 shillings each.

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 1830 - Circa 1840

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14416-R-63
Primary reference Number: 215208
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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