Lot Essay
For the Bartolozzi cf. 'A History of Valentines', Ruth Webb Lee, p. 91 Plate 70.
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FRANCESCO BARTOLOZZI
Three hand-coloured lithographs, two of women formed out of shells and flowers, the other of a man formed out of insects, after Francesco Bartolozzi, cut out and laid down on paper, c. 1840; A manuscript valentine depicting the 'Astronomy of the Heart', showing the heart and its 'Tropics', with an explanatory symbol chart, the verso with a poem 'Dedicated to Augusta', 11 x 8in., c. 1822; and a quantity of other miscellaneous valentine material.
Three hand-coloured lithographs, two of women formed out of shells and flowers, the other of a man formed out of insects, after Francesco Bartolozzi, cut out and laid down on paper, c. 1840; A manuscript valentine depicting the 'Astronomy of the Heart', showing the heart and its 'Tropics', with an explanatory symbol chart, the verso with a poem 'Dedicated to Augusta', 11 x 8in., c. 1822; and a quantity of other miscellaneous valentine material.