IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206607 accession number: P.14348-R-19 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Design for a valentine on cream wove paper. A drawing in graphite, charcoal and wash of a couple sitting in a garden arbor, a church seen in the background on the right. A border of what appear to be entwining flowers and leaves is sketched out around the drawing and continued to the lower edge of the page. A remnant of lined pink notepaper is adhered to the paper below the image. The composition of the drawing appears to be that seen in one of the plates from the Despondent Lover series, which were originally printed as etchings with aquatint in 1828 by Joseph Addenbrooke. See P.14346-R-L2, P.14346-R-2 and P.14346-R-3. It is not clear if P.14348-R-19 is a design for the original number or a copy of the finished print. The remains of a paper spine along the left edge suggests that the design may have been taken from a sketchbook. A fragment of paper with a hand-written verse in faded ink is attached to the paper below the image at the left edge and partially folded: "The birds carol sweetly, alll nature looks gay, / Nay spirits are high for this glorious day / now will away & haste down to the stile / My sweetheart is waiting I'm sure all this while ...". This is not the same verse that accompanies the plate from the Despondent Lover series. 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/206607 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand-drawing TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_19_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 868 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14348_R_19_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 590 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_19_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 868 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14348_R_19_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 295 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_19_2_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 956 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14348_R_19_2_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 467 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_19_2_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 956 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14348_R_19_2_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 233 pixels width: 250 pixels