IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214526 accession number: P.14361-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Small 48mo playing-card-style 'men and flowers' themed comic valentine with a die-stamped 'lace' edge. A chromolithograph with rounded corners affixed to the centre of 'lace'-edged white card, features a young gentleman on bended knee, his face at the centre of a large pink rose with leaves around his shoulders. A scrap affixed above with the motto: YOURS / EVER. On the verso: "[Floral?] / type" written in graphite. "4" written in graphite. "1840s" written very faintly in graphite. From a series featuring men with flowers or as hybrid flowers and originally mounted in album P.14412-R as one of nine from the same series. P.14412-R-88 and P.14412-R-91 are duplicates, although all have different mottoes and P.14412-R-88 has a gilt embossed border rather than a 'lace' edge. The quality of the art-work in this series is high, although neither the artist nor the manufacturer are known. Almost certainly originally contained inside a cream envelope found loose on the same leaf of the album and inscribed in hand-written black ink: "Flower type / c. 184-" and "8" written in blue crayon. The envelope possibly originated with a dealer who was sending Glaisher valentines on approval. This valentine was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 75. This valentine was one of 12 included in the exhibition about J.W.L. Glaisher as collector, _James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ScD, FRS (1848-1928) Mathematician and Collector_, held in the Octagon Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1999, Case 9. The selection repeated that of the 1995 exhibition. 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/214526 TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14361_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1012 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14361_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 494 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14361_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1012 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14361_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 247 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14361_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 999 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14361_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 513 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14361_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 999 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14361_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 256 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/569/large_P_14361_R_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1012 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/569/mid_P_14361_R_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 494 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/569/P_14361_R_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 3611 pixels width: 3655 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/569/preview_P_14361_R_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 247 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/570/large_P_14361_R_2_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1050 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/570/mid_P_14361_R_2_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 513 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/570/P_14361_R_2_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 3602 pixels width: 3514 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/570/preview_P_14361_R_2_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 256 pixels width: 250 pixels