IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214601 accession number: P.14410-R-26 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, white wove paper. An etched roundel contains an outdoor scene of a woman wearing white regency dress and gloves and raising her arm to dispatch Cupid and his doves with a letter. A shrine surmounted with a pair of hearts stands to the left. Printed verse above and below the central image: "Fly Cupid, fly, extend your wing. / Hasten and his answer bring: ...". Watermark: J WHATMAN / 1821. A graphite inscription at upper right: "1821". A graphite inscription on the album leaf: "W M 1821". 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. 3. A graphite number "3" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue. 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/214601 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1821 - 1821 creation date earliest: 1821 creation date latest: 1821 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_26_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_26_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_26_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_26_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels