IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214239 accession number: P.14344-R-22 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 20 April 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver lace-paper with an oval-shaped frame of silver lace-paper (design of fushia and other plants) mounted on paper springs. A heart shape cut out at the centre contains a chromolithographed bouquet of fruit and flowers. Two small windows below contain pink silk rose buds backed with turquoise cut-paper leaves. A chromolithographed and varnished spray of flowers on silvered paper inside a small, oval-shaped window at upper centre. The inside of the card is blank. On the album leaf below P.14344-R-22 and 23 is an inscription in graphite written in Catherine Parson's hand, which states: 'These five valentines were sent between the years 1859-63 by Dr. Glaisher's sister to her school friend Mrs Florence Wilson, who gave them, with other valentines, to Dr Glaisher for his collection in 1925.'. Other than possibly the two cards affixed to this leaf of the album (P.14344-R-22 and P.14344-R-23), it is diffcult to identify conclusively the 'five' cards named in this inscription. See also P.14397-R, which was taken from this album and is now loose. Catherine Parsons was a close friend of Glaisher, especially towards the end of his life, and undertook to mount and arrange his valentine collection into albums. See letters from Glaisher to Parsons held at the Fitzwilliam Museum. 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/214239 TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1859 - 1863 creation date earliest: 1859 creation date latest: 1863 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Object of My Affection: Stories of Love from the Fitzwilliam Collection IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_22_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 707 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14344_R_22_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 724 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_22_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 707 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14344_R_22_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 250 pixels