Hand-colored valentine with a man in a top hat and blue coat beside a tree and cottage, above scripted verse and decorative initial letters.

Valentine: Armed with Sincerity and Truth, c. 1842

A hand-colored lithograph valentine showing a dandy in a tall top hat, blue coat and white trousers, leaning on a cane beside a tree. A thatched cottage with red chimneys and a figure at a window sits behind him, with a decorative scripted verse and ornamental initial below.

Artist: Unknown
Date: c. 1842
Medium: Lithograph with hand-coloring on ivory wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2123 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1847).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emma B. Hodge

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