IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214658 accession number: P.14411-R-28 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White lace-paper with central window covered with a yellow (or yellowed) gauze blind mounted with an elaborate collage 'corsage' of real feathers of varying sizes and colours (blue and black striped, red, irridescent purple, white) held in a 'clasp' of gilt cut-paper bow and silver cut-paper leaves. A hand-painted design of flowers and fruit on the back-sheet is visible through the blind, although the feather collage obscures the hand-written verses which aren't readable until the card is opened: "These light and glowing feathers show / No borrow'd artificial hue / Thus far beyond the limner's art / 'Tis inborn nature dyes the heart ...". 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/214658 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14411_R_28_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 797 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14411_R_28_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 642 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14411_R_28_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 797 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14411_R_28_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 321 pixels width: 250 pixels