These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Playing card-size lithographed geometric design using purple and gold inks. Affixed at the centre is a glazed chromolithograph on a paper spring of a dark-haired winged putti peeping over a white Japanese fan decorated with flowers (poppy, cornflowers, daisies) and with the printed motto: 'Wishing you every Happiness!'. The interior is blank. One of a series of cards with similar geometric lithographed designs and applied chromolithographs mounted on the same leaf of album P.14413-R. P.14413-R-60 is of the same design, but with paler purple ink in the background lithographed design, a different coloured fan, different flowers and motto and blonde-haired putti.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1860
-
1880
Accession number: P.14413-R-58
Primary reference Number: 214907
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214907 Accessed: 2024-11-16 22:00:53
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214907
|title=Valentine card
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-16 22:00:53|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-214907
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_58_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg"
alt="Valentine card"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Valentine card</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
