IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214673 accession number: P.14411-R-43 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Heart-shaped card with silvered embossed lace-paper front sheet of a flower garland design with a collage of blue silk leaves and silver tinsel flower affixed at lower centre. A scrap with printed verse in silver affixed at upper centre: "The flowers that / spring around / Are not so sweet / to me, / Tho' they with beau / ty deck the ground / They'll not compare / with thee." A window at the centre contains a chromolithographed posy of flowers mounted onto the back sheet bordered with a frame of silvered and embossed cut-paper leaves and one hand-coloured cut-paper pink rose. Initials inscribed in ink below: C. ?R. The front sheet adhered to the back sheet at the left side. Almost identical to another card, P.14411-R-45, mounted onto the same album leaf. Both cards use the same silvered embossed design, but with different scraps and collage elements. Similar heart-shaped cards in the Laura Seddon collection at Manchester Metropolitan University are dated 1850-60. See Volume 8, nos 9 and 10. 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/214673 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14411_R_43_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 941 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14411_R_43_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 459 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14411_R_43_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 941 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14411_R_43_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 230 pixels width: 250 pixels