IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214515 accession number: P.14349-R-39 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A postcard size valentine of white wove paper with embossed and scalloped edge bordering a chromolithograph of three nesting birds (chaffinch, bullfinch and blackbird) entwined with spring flowers (including bluebells and primroses) and two nests containing eggs. The design is set against a silver background with a verse by Sir Phillip Sydney inset on white at centre right: TO MY TRUE LOVE / My true Love hath my heart, and I have his. ... / SIR P. SYDNEY. MARCUS WARD & CO. printed at lower left. ENT. STA. HALL printed at lower right. An example of this card is in the collection of The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, who date it as 1887 (although without supporting references). See: http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15928coll4/id/167/rec/11. 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/214515 TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1887 - 1887 creation date earliest: 1887 creation date latest: 1887 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Marcus Ward & Co. IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14349_R_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 909 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14349_R_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 563 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14349_R_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 909 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14349_R_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 282 pixels width: 250 pixels