IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215039 accession number: P.14414-R-48 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A large 8vo white wove paper valentine with an embossed border design of flowers, acanthus scrolls and scallop shells. At the centre is a lozenge of applied white lace-paper (positioned horizontally) containing a panel of rice-paper with a hand-painted design of leafy branches and flowers. Four silver paper ornaments of laurel wreaths are affixed around the central lozenge over stencilled sprays of leafy branches in blue ink/paint. A verse is hand-written at upper and lower centre: 'There's not a thought I breathe for thee / I would not have returned to me'. 'G. KERSHAW LONDON' stamped at lower left and lower right. The interior is blank. From the same series as another card, P.14414-R-55, which is mounted in the same album. 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/215039 TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- collage TECHNIQUES ---------- gouache CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kershaw, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_48_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 980 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_48_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 522 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_48_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 980 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_48_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 261 pixels width: 250 pixels