Printed Ephemera — 1860-1869
Card, valentine card
Comic valentine's card printed as a woodcut on cheap paper with a caricature of a painter spilling a bucket of paint. The print is crudely coloured and below is printed a cruel verse 'The sight of a Boddice, or a few stray curls, Sets your mouth watering after the Girls, While you are staring with lecherous eyes Your blundering movements your pail will capsize, Splashing and pouring all into the street, Making the passers by white as a sheet; While you get the sack, as truly you luck it Deserves for so stupidly kicking the Bucket.' One of a collection of sample comic valentine's bound in a single volume, stored within a wooden case. On the spine of the case is a label 'Comic'. One of a series of valentine's cards relating to various trades.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 34.170/1482
- Object name:
- card, valentine card
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- King, Jonathan
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- Related places:
3-4 Britannia Street, City Road, London, City of Westminster
- Production date:
- 1860-1869
- Material:
paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 255 mm, W 192 mm
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
- —
- Creative commons usage:
- —
- License this image:
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