IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214931 accession number: P.14413-R-82 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A 'raised' valentine composed of two layers; white lace-paper with central oval window, mounted with an oval-shaped collage of white fabric leaves, a white satin ribbon bow at upper centre, scraps of flowers and leaves at centre left and right and at lower centre a gilt-edged lithographed motto (as hand-painted entwined leaves and flowers): 'LOVE'. The white lace-paper is mounted with paper springs to a layer of embossed white paper with tinted purple edge and a large chromolithograph of lilies (in sepia, orange and green inks) at the centre. 'MULLORD BROTHERS' stamped at lower centre (viewed from verso). Inside, a lengthy hand-written verse in black ink on pink lined paper addressed to 'Daisy', evidently composed by the sender, who appears to be an older gentleman, possibly a father or uncle: 'To Daisy / A poet's muse usurps his heart, / His mind uplifts, his brain it fires; / So maiden fair, pray blame me not / I speak but as my muse inspires ....'. 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/214931 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mullord Bros. IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_82_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 795 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14413_R_82_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 644 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_82_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 795 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14413_R_82_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 322 pixels width: 250 pixels