IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214560 accession number: P.14395-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 27 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Chromolithograph of a young couple wearing medieval costume in a garden, the youth has placed his hands over the girl's eyes from behind. ENT. STA. HALL at lower left and MARCUS WARD & CO at lower right (repeated below printed border). The chromolithograph is mounted on white 8vo-sized card with a gold lithographic border. On the right-hand inside page is a verse lithographed in gold ink with a blue border of scrolling leaves: "I dreamt I saw you yesternight. / And claspt my hands about your eyes, / Nor dared to venture in your sight / Until you pardoned the surprise. ...". MARCUS WARD & CO printed at lower left. A question mark in black ink has been added into the verse after the word "guess". This valentine design is by Kate Greenaway and was published by Marcus Ward & Co. as one of four illustrations created by her for the book, _The Quiver of Love, a collection of valentines ancient and modern_ (London, 1876), featuring men and women wearing medieval costume. All were unsigned. This design is titled _The Surprise_ and appears on p.53 of the book. See British Library: www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11115740613. Walter Crane also produced four designs for the book, all of which, like Greenaways, were also produced as valentine cards. The designs are among Greenaway's earliest work, before she became an established artist. The verses are believed to have been written by the Reverend W.J. Loftie. See Frank Staff, _The Valentine & Its Origins,1969, pp. 106-7_. This card 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. 62. 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/214560 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1876 - 1876 creation date earliest: 1876 creation date latest: 1876 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/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/631/large_P_14395_R_4_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1124 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/631/mid_P_14395_R_4_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 549 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/631/P_14395_R_4_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 5057 pixels width: 4609 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/631/preview_P_14395_R_4_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 274 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/632/large_P_14395_R_1_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1109 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/632/mid_P_14395_R_1_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 542 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/632/P_14395_R_1_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 5104 pixels width: 4712 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/632/preview_P_14395_R_1_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 271 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/633/large_P_14395_R_3_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 734 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/633/mid_P_14395_R_3_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 358 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/633/P_14395_R_3_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 4472 pixels width: 6240 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/633/preview_P_14395_R_3_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 179 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/633/P_14395_R_3_201710_amt49_mas.ptif height: 4472 pixels width: 6240 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/634/large_P_14395_R_2_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1115 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/634/mid_P_14395_R_2_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 544 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/634/P_14395_R_2_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 5137 pixels width: 4719 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/634/preview_P_14395_R_2_201710_amt49_mas.jpg height: 272 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/634/P_14395_R_2_201710_amt49_mas.ptif height: 5137 pixels width: 4719 pixels