IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215057 accession number: P.14414-R-66 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A white lace-paper front mounted onto a slightly larger sheet of buff-coloured wove paper which has been cut down on all sides. A message is lithographed (as handwritten) in blue ink at upper and lower centre: 'We must be united, / Dearest Valentine'. At upper centre is a lithographed cut-paper scroll inscribed in blue ink: 'Cupid's Arms' and which surrounds a central shield divided into four sections coloured alternately blue and red with each bearing tiny paper motifs relating to love: a silver paper ornament of a dove with letter; a white paper lily; a gilt paper ring; two pink coloured paper hearts. Below the shield is a collage of hand-coloured, cut-paper flowers and leaves with hand-painted additions of stems and buds in gouache. The right-hand section can be lifted up for insertion of an inscription, although the paper underneath is blank. 'KERSHAW' is stamped at lower right. A hand-written inscription in graphite at upper left: 'L/C'. Similar inscriptions/markings in graphite are found on other cards in the same album. The interior is blank. 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/215057 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography 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_66_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 824 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_66_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 621 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_66_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 824 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_66_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 311 pixels width: 250 pixels