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Paper valentine, 1809

Paper valentine, 1809

Image Reference: 55500
Image Date: 1809
Measurements: 26 x 18 cm
Medium: print
Collection: Ephemera
Library Reference: VAL1/002
Credit: Bath & North East Somerset Council
Library: Bath Record Office : Archives & Local Studies

Description: A coloured engraving of Cupid showing an apparition of a young woman appearing to a young man. Printed under the engraving: 'Cupid turned Magician, by which means a young Man comes to him, to desire him to shew the Figure of her who is intended by Fate to be his Wife.' Around the central engraving are four verses: 1. 'Cupid who oft exerts his skill/To subject mortals to his will/Quite fearless of all opposition/He passes for a sage magician,' 2. 'A Youth perplext in love affairs/Resolves at once to end his cares,/To Cupid sues that he might see/The fair who is his Bride to be,' 3. The God agrees and brings to view,/A Maiden formed to subdue,' 4. The Youth in rapture cries she's mind/And I'll send her this Valentine.'
Handwritten on the back of the engraving: My Dear i ham Very Sorou that I Was ought of town on the Thursday & Nowe i have toaking this Hoportunety of Sending this few lins to you Hoping that you are well witch it Leaves me at Preasent So No Mor at Present your Present frend.

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