IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214441 accession number: P.14346-R-55 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A 4to-sized sheet of buff-coloured paper mounted on a larger piece of white card. A hand-coloured wood-engraving of a man standing in a rural landscape, his right arm extended to received a locket on a chain bearing a portrait miniature of his beloved. The locket is carried in the beak of a dove at upper left. A church is seen in the background on the left. A verse is engraved below: "Go pretty, gentle, faithful dove / Hasten to the myrtle grove / There you'll find him I admire / Who fills my heart with chaste desire / Give him this semblance of mine / And say I am his Valentine." A hand-written graphite inscription on the card at upper left: "756", which may relate to price. A hand-written graphite inscription on the card at upper right: "c. 1830". It is possible that the number "756" relates to the lot number from the sale catalogue of bookseller, R.S. Frampton (No. 35, 1924; Valentinesarchive14) which was found among Glaisher's valentines and from which lot 756 has been cut. Many of the clippings from the Frampton catalogues were pasted onto album leaves beside the relevant albums (presumably by Catherine Parsons), but it is possible that this one was missed. 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/214441 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- wood engraving CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_55_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 736 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14346_R_55_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 696 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_55_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 736 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14346_R_55_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 348 pixels width: 250 pixels