IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214511 accession number: P.14349-R-35 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Wednesday 3 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A postcard-style valentine published by Marcus Ward & Co. with a border of black and gold and a pink dog-rose design. A chromolithograph, positioned off-centre to the right, shows a young couple wearing regency-style dress, walking through a meadow with white Spring blossom on the trees and white flowers in the grass. The illustration is by Kate Greenaway (although unsigned) and appeared originally in a second volume of the anthology of love poetry, _The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern_ which was published by Marcus Ward & Co. in 1880. A much larger volume of _The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern_ with illustrations by both Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane, was published in 1876. In the 1880 volume, this illustration is positioned opposite the poem, _Spring Flowers_, by A. Gaskell, which describes a couple walking arm in arm through a green meadow at Springtime. The book included three further illustrations by Greenaway, including _Love's Offering_, which was also reproduced as a valentine card. See P.14349-R-34, a valentine from the same series by Marcus Ward & Co. which is positioned on the same album leaf. Printed at lower left corner: ENT. STA. HALL and at lower right corner: MARCUS WARD & CO. The poem _Spring Flowers_ is printed on the verso. See notes. See Frank Staff, _The Valentine and its Origins_, pp. 106-7. 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/214511 TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Marcus Ward & Co. maker: Greenaway, Kate 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_14349_R_35_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 988 pixels width: 722 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14349_R_35_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 684 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14349_R_35_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 988 pixels width: 722 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14349_R_35_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 342 pixels width: 250 pixels