IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214470 accession number: P.14346-R-L13 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Loose inside album P.14346-R between nos. 26 and 27. A rebus valentine, lithographed and hand-coloured on pink laid paper. The paper has been cut down or cut from its backing paper along the left edge. The upper, lower and right edges of the paper are scalloped. The rebus has been translated as follows: "Dear / At thy feet I / propose to speak sweet words of Love / my heart is only thine believe I / cannot Love thee less, but while / I live I am thine and / thine only; Dearest accept / my hand and heart and let / me prove, how constant eye / can be to Love and thee; / Yours unalterably". The rebus was apparently affixed into the album at some point, as there are adhesions of the brown album leaf paper on the verso. The same rebus valentine, but printed on white paper and with a decorative border, was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 10 February 1995, lot 89 (illustrated as colour plate 89 between pp. 18 and 19 of the catalogue). The Christie's object is watermarked, 'Super 64'. Another similar rebus valentine in the collection of Nancy Rosin is printed by James Wood, Edinburgh, London, etc., and dated c.1862. See the John Johnson collection, Bodleian Library administrated Pinterest site of valentines: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/424393964866215630/ [date visited site, February 2016]. 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/214470 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_L13_1_201607_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_L13_1_201607_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_L13_1_201607_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_L13_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 348 pixels width: 250 pixels