IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214984 accession number: P.14413-R-135 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A white cameo-embossed lace-paper front with a design of exotic palm trees and other plants flanking a temple gateway at the centre with an oval window through which is seen (from the inside right-hand page) a hand-painted background of pink and blue sky with hand-coloured embossed cut-paper figures of three cupids/putti on a plinth with blue coral, below which is a cut-paper and hand-coloured pink rose with stencilled leaves. A printed motto inside a shield ornament is affixed to the lace-paper front at upper centre: 'Oh / bid me live / in hope'. At the top of the inside right-hand page are hand-written verses in black ink: 'Louisa dearest how I Iove thee / words I cannot find to tell / but my heart is thine forever / Do not bid me [say] farewell. / Life without thee would be sorrow / at which I fear I should repine / Oh then dearest say tomorrow / you will be my Valentine / Henry'. Although the verse is addressed to a named recipient and signed, it was probably copied from a Valentine Writer with the relevant names inserted. 'WOOD' is stamped onto the lace-paper front at lower left. A square lozenge containing the stamp: 'DEAN & SON / LONDON' is stamped on the verso of the back paper. 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/214984 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: J.T. Wood & Co maker: Dean & Son IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_135_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 813 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14413_R_135_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 630 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_135_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 813 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14413_R_135_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 315 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_135_2_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 825 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14413_R_135_2_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 621 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_135_2_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 825 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14413_R_135_2_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 310 pixels width: 250 pixels