IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206511 accession number: P.14342-R-31 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A small valentine of white lace-paper, a second layer overlaid on paper springs of gilded and embossed lace-paper. The paper design showing a scene at upper centre of a Cupid beside a beehive with a pair of birds of paradise below and a figure playing a lyre in a roundel at lower centre. A cut-paper, chromolithographed motto: 'TRULY / THINE' with cornucopia of fruits affixed at upper centre. A collage (some losses) at lower centre of cut-paper leaves and cloth flower. Opens to handwritten inscription in pen and ink: 'Pene / 1863'. See also no. 51, which is apparently from or to the same sender, 'Pene' (possibly an abbreviation of 'Penelope') and dated the following year. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206511 TECHNIQUES ---------- embossing TECHNIQUES ---------- colour printing TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1863 - 1863 creation date earliest: 1863 creation date latest: 1863 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown