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Valentine

ca. 1880
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Comic valentine depicting a housemaid wearing a red dress with white apron and cap, and holding a broom.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
colour lithograph
Brief description
Comic valentine depicting a housemaid, published by W.S. Fortey, colour lithograph, British, ca. 1880
Physical description
Comic valentine depicting a housemaid wearing a red dress with white apron and cap, and holding a broom.
DimensionsIndividual dimensions not given in Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Marks and inscriptions
  • W.S. FORTEY, Printer, Bloomsbury, London, W.C.
  • TO A PERT YOUNG HOUSEMAID. My tricky Housemaid you are a dear, but don't at gents so often leer, (End of poem missing?)
Credit line
Given by Miss Jane Samuels
Subjects depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Collection
Accession number
E.1620-1929

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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