IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215035 accession number: P.14414-R-44 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White lace-paper front mounted onto the album leaf. The central panel has a hand-drawn and painted illustration of a small naked Cupid sitting within a broken egg shell. A spray of hand-painted forget-me-nots below and a hand-written title in blue ink above: 'The Birth of Cupid'. 'MEEK' stamped at lower centre. 'Meek' is written in graphite onto the album leaf below the card. The hand is recognisable as that of Miss Catherine Parsons and is seen in other albums throughout the collection, documenting and transcribing inscriptions, prices and maker's names. Catherine Parsons was a close friend of Glaisher towards the end of his life and undertook to arrange and mount his valentine collection into albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond. 'L 1' inscribed in graphite onto the album leaf above the card. The origin is unknown, but similar markings in graphite are inscribed on cards and/or leaves in album P.14414-R. 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/215035 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meek, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_44_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 863 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_44_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 593 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_44_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 863 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_44_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 297 pixels width: 250 pixels