IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214594 accession number: P.14410-R-19 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching and hand-colouring on one sheet of thin, cream laid paper with perforated panels attempting lace-paper. A central scene within an oval etched frame of a pair of Cupids operating a grinding stone and a third Cupid hovering above and pouring water onto the stone. A river in the background with a pair of swans. Etched title and verse below: CUPIDS POINTING THEIR ARROWS. / The Sharp Arrow of Love, hath pierc'd my heart through: / From Morning till Night, I am thinking of You." 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. 13. A graphite number "13" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue. The 1995 exhibition catalogue states: "… with the same border pattern as an example dated and postmarked 1802." The example referred to is a similar 4to-sized valentine on the subject of Cupid entitled _The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche_ which is reproduced in Frank Staff, _The Valentine & Its Origins_ (1969), no. 32, p. 36. 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/214594 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1802 - 1802 creation date earliest: 1802 creation date latest: 1802 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 771 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 664 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 771 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_19_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 332 pixels width: 250 pixels