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Valentine card: P.14544-R

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Park, A.

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Description

A comic woodcut valentine on thin wove paper, folded. There are paper losses (nibbled?) at lower centre and upper right corner. A hand-coloured woodcut of a grotesque female head wearing a cloth cap and 'wearing' a pair of trousers. The publisher's details printed below: 'A. PARK, LONDON'. A verse printed below: 'I say, old wench, how are you now? / You surely must be full of riches, / For you've not only prigged the coat. / But now it seems you've got the breeches. / I wish you luck, old termagant, / A temper hot like your's [sic] will thin them, / I wouldn't wear the same again, / For all the precious goods within them.'. The interior is blank.

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

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Woodcut

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14544-R
Primary reference Number: 215489
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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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