IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214230 accession number: P.14344-R-13 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Embossed paper with gilded detailing; a design featuring a shepherdess with sheep, trees and flowers with some hand colouring. A central, oval-shaped window with a frame of embossed white roses and hand-painted leaves. The window is backed with a panel of pink net and a silver, embossed cupid on a cloud affixed to the interior leaf is seen through it. A hand-written inscription in blue ink above and below the central panel: "Constant to thee, / Be thou so to me". Inside the card there is a hand-written inscription in black ink: "To share thy joys to soothe thy care / with thee my every thought to share / with thee, in mutual love to live / is all I ask of Heaven to give. / ?L.S." A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below P.14344-R-13 states: "21 /= was paid for this valentine in 1925". The hand has been identified as belonging to Glaisher's friend, local Antiquarian, Catherine Parsons (1890-1956), who arranged and assembled his valentine albums in 1924. Her hand is seen elsewhere throughout album P.14344-R. Initials in graphite below are indecipherable. [ /= denotes shillings]. 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/214230 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mansell, Joseph IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_13_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 697 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14344_R_13_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 735 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_13_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 697 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14344_R_13_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 367 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_13_2_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 875 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14344_R_13_2_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 585 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_13_2_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 875 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14344_R_13_2_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 293 pixels width: 250 pixels