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Creator:
unknown artist
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 pen and black ink, center: " Take warning would be Valentines| by my unhappy fate | lest unto you should happen Thynnes | m ye matrimonial state"; lower left: " from an ancient M.S.S. in British Museum, coedutty tent | of cruelty bachelor friend to a incidnct | X ( s. lo friends anns f .mottol )"

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:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4237
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