IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215142 accession number: P.14415-R-L4 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Loose inside album P.14415-R, on the fifth leaf. A 4to-size front of white wove paper with an embossed border. At the centre is a rectangular panel of white lace-paper with a central diamond-shaped window bordered with silver, metallic paper and with a blind of dark green tissue paper mounted with a silver paper dove ornament bearing a branch surrounded by radiating strokes of gold ink. There are stencilled flower stems and leaves with applied paper flowers above and below the diamond-shaped window. Around the lace-paper panel are silver paper flower ornaments at the four corners and early lithography in gold ink: flower garlands to left and right and verse above and below. The text of the verse is missing in places due to weak impression: 'Why should I blush to own I love / Tis love that rules the [ ...] / Why blush, to say, to all / That virtue holds my heart in thrall ...'. The poem is by Henry Kirke White (1785-1806). The back paper is missing. 'KERSHAW' is stamped at the lower right of the central lace-paper panel. Elements of P.14415-R-L4 are almost identical to those seen in other valentines which also demonstrate early lithography and are contained in album P.14414-R. See especially P.14414-R-89, which employs the same green tissue paper blind, dove ornament and radiating lines in addition to the stencilled stems, leaves and applied paper flowers. 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/215142 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage TECHNIQUES ---------- gouache CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kershaw, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14415_R_L4_1_amt49_201608_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 824 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14415_R_L4_1_amt49_201608_dc2.jpg height: 621 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14415_R_L4_1_amt49_201608_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 824 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14415_R_L4_1_amt49_201608_dc2.jpg height: 311 pixels width: 250 pixels