IDENTIFIERS
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id:	214227
accession number:	P.14344-R-10

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 14 February 2017
updated:	Friday 26 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Lace-paper with a large central panel containing a collage of dried grasses, tissue paper leaves and cut-paper, hand-coloured leaves, flowers and birds (with varnish) around a cut-out nest painted in gouache and varnished. A hand-written verse in blue ink above and continued behind the collage: "This is affection's Tribute, Friendship's offering, / whose silent eloquence, more rich than words, / (underneath the tissue paper leaves) speaks of the giver's faith in absence / and says …" (the rest of the inscription obscured by the collage). MEEK blind-embossed at lower centre. The inside of the card is blank.
title:	Valentine card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214227





TECHNIQUES
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hand colouring
TECHNIQUES
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collage
TECHNIQUES
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gouache

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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creation date:	1840 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1840
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Meek, George


IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_10_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg
height: 1024 pixels
width: 738 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14344_R_10_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg
height: 694 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_10_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg
height: 1024 pixels
width: 738 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14344_R_10_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg
height: 347 pixels
width: 250 pixels