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Valentine card
Publisher: S. Marks & Sons
A comic valentine on thin, white wove paper folded in half. A hand-coloured woodcut of a young woman with a turned up nose, seen in profile facing right, wearing a crinoline and flat straw bonnet, a rose held in her right hand (although not defined by the hand colouring). A letterpress verse below: 'Beautiful Innocence list to my lay, / How fine you are drest in that youthful array, / You stand up so stiff with your nose turn'd up, / That no doubt you think yourself a Duck, / The bonnet on your head looks so funny, / Quite suits your nose when it's sunny, / With a rose in your hand you think yourself fine, / So you're not fit for my Valentine.'. Printed below the image at lower left: 'London: Marks & Sons (most likely S. Marks & Sons). The interior is blank. The valentine has been folded twice for delivery. A handwritten address on the verso: 'Miss Emma Clark / Ibston Lodge / Stampford Hill / N'. A date written on the horizontal in graphite and underlined to the left of the address, possibly the same hand or at least contemporaneous: '1864'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1864
Hand colouring
Letterpress
Woodcut
Accession number: P.14558-R
Primary reference Number: 215503
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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