IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215129 accession number: P.14414-R-L3 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Loose inside album P.14414-R after the first leaf inside a large brown manila envelope with one other valentine, P.14414-R-L1. One of two lithographed and hand-coloured comic valentines with clippings of letterpress text below from the same series of lonely hearts adverts which have been cut out separately from their original location and mounted onto a sheet of brown wove paper. An image of an old, spinster-type with a long face who wears round spectacles. Pasted below is a clipping of letterpress text: 'A MIDDLE-AGED LADY, of most genteel appearance ... would be happy to correspond with a Gentleman of similar age ... Address "Miss Thinstitch, Antiquated Alley." '. Two inscriptions in graphite written onto the brown paper secondary support below most likely originate with a dealer: '1840'; '3/ the 2 [3 shillings for the pair]'. P.14414-R-L3 is mounted beside P.14414-R-L2 on the same sheet of brown 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/215129 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- letterpress TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_L3_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1012 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_L3_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 506 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_L3_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1012 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_L3_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 253 pixels width: 250 pixels