Printed Ephemera — 1885-1899
An Alteration
Cruel valentine's card comprising a single sheet of cream card with serrated edge and applied cardboard gibbet with a noose of pink cord. Printed with the message 'An Alteration You ask me dear Miss not to falter but to hasten with you to the Altar I would, but I fear, That the aspirate, dear, precedes the latter word H....alter'.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 34.170/1138
- Object name:
- An Alteration
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- King, Jonathan
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- Production date:
- 1885-1899
- Material:
- paper, cotton
- Measurements/duration:
- H 137 mm, W 97 mm
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
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