IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206559 accession number: P.14342-R-79 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A quarto, jewelled valentine front of white lace-paper with brown-coloured, stencilled borders. The front-paper has a secondary support of grey paper, probably a leaf from a different album from which it has been cut out for insertion into this album. A central aperture with gauze blind and brown paper panel behind mounted with a cut-paper and hand-coloured figure of a lady wearing an orange dress holding flowers and fruits and with a basket of flowers. The aperture is framed with gilded lace-paper leaves and cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers (forget-me-not, convolvulus) and glittered white silk leaves and red 'jewel and 'turquoise 'jewel' (a second red jewel lost) at lower centre. A handwritten verse at upper left and right: 'Oh! smile my dear / That I may see / Love dwells within / Thy heart for me.'. A small, cut-paper and hand-coloured Hymen, holding a flaming torch and sitting on a rice-paper cloud is affixed at upper centre. 'MANSELL' faintly blind-stamped at lower left. See also 'Acton' valentine, P.14384-R, a similar jewelled valentine, presumed to be by Mansell. 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/206559 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- embossing TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1852 - 1852 creation date earliest: 1852 creation date latest: 1852 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mansell, Joseph CITATIONS -------- Valentines: Highlights from the Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_79_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 805 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14342_R_79_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 636 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_79_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 805 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14342_R_79_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 318 pixels width: 250 pixels