The Valentine Album: P.14418-R-40

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Valentine Album
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Meek, George

Entities

Valentine card

Categories

Print
Album

Description

A comic valentine with novelty portrait album. A single sheet of white paper with an embossed design of roses at each corner and along left and right sides. A scalloped outer edge and inner border of lace-paper latticework. A hand-written (or lithographed) title and message at upper and lower centre: 'The / Valentine Album / Containing 6 Portraits / You are at perfect liberty / To choose the one / most suited to your own / Individual Case.'. Mounted at the centre is a novelty book with a glazed, lithographed and hand-coloured cover design, to appear as an album with a 'metal' fastener at the right side, and coloured in yellow, red, green, blue and gold inks. Inside are several pages of hand-coloured lithographs of various animals, including a goose, snake, monkey and donkey/ass. 'MEEK' is stamped onto the white paper at lower centre.

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

School or Style

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-40
Primary reference Number: 215388
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Monday 29 May 2017

Associated departments & institutions

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

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            University of Cambridge}}

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