unknown artist, Comic Valentine, undated
- Title:
- Comic Valentine
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 3/4 × 4 inches (17.1 × 10.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower center: "From an ancient M.S.S. in British Museum, evidently sent | by cruelty bachelor friend to a Benedict | X ( c. to friend's arms & mottoe)"
Lettered inside image, lower right: "SOURE"; lower center: "Take warning would be Valentynes | By my unhappy Fate | Lest unto you should happen Twynnes | In ye Matrimonial State"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1993.31.9
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | children | comic | man | text | valentine
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4237
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