IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215160 accession number: P.14416-R-15 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-coloured lithograph on 4to-size, very thin white wove paper. An ornate, oval-shaped baroque-style strapwork/scrollwork border printed in blue ink with entwining vine with grapes, leaves, flowers featuring Cupid and Hebe. A heart pierced with an arrow at lower centre. Within the border is a lithograph printed in black ink with some hand colouring of a woman in an interior wearing a neck ruff and leg of mutton sleeves and holding a letter in her right hand. Neck ruffs were fashionable during the 1830s. A verse is printed below: 'Now's the time for love and Joy / will you be my Valentine. / Cupid will the time employ / And our hearts together twine'. The interior is blank. The front is adhered to the back at lower right. One of four examples from the same series with blue lithographed ornate borders which are mounted together, consecutively in album P.14416-R. See also P.14416-R-12, P.14416-R-13 and P.14416-R-14. 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/215160 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1842 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1842 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Strong, Thomas W. IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_15_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 809 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_15_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 633 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_15_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 809 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_15_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 316 pixels width: 250 pixels