IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214730 accession number: P.14412-R-6 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comic valentine on the subject of the crinoline. 18mo-size white wove paper with embossed border and hand-coloured wood engraving of a lady wearing a crinoline with a flounced yellow skirt. A printed verse below: "Flounces frills and furbelows, / Attract tis' true the many, / But I'd rather pay my vows, / To one of sense if any.". The inside pages are blank. Mounted on the same album leaf as other similar cards in the same lithographic style and the drawing apparently by the hand of the same artist, all of the same size and relating to the subject of crinolines. It seems quite likely that the series of valentines on the subject of crinolines which are mounted together in album P.14412-R were purchased by Glaisher from the Actons of Brighton in 1924. In a letter to Miss Catherine Parsons dated 19th November 1924, Glaisher states: 'I am enclosing some valentines sent me on appro [approval] from Miss Acton of Brighton: they are 3/- each or £2.10 for the lot. They all relate to the crinoline period 1860 ... There are some duplicates tht [that] you could relieve me of if I take the set which may be the best to do.'. Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 905-1985, 19th November, 1924, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons. 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/214730 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- wood engraving 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_14412_R_6_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 890 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14412_R_6_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 575 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_6_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 890 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14412_R_6_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 288 pixels width: 250 pixels