IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215170 accession number: P.14416-R-25 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A lithograph in black ink with hand colouring in pink, green, yellow and blue paint on 4to-size very thin, white wove paper and surrounded by a circular lithographed border of leaves, roses, putti, flaming hearts, Cupid's quiver and bow and Hymen's flaming torch printed in blue ink. At the centre of the border is a young woman wearing pink dress trimmed with bows standing at the edge of a lake in a country park. She holds a letter in her left hand. Cupid hides with his bow in the bushes on the right. A church spire is seen in the distance. A verse is printed below: 'All I'd ask of life to give / Thus to love thee, thus to live / No other heaven I'd seek than thine / My charming blooming Valentine'. The interior is blank. The front is adhered to the back at upper right. One of six valentines from the same series, all with the same printed border, and mounted consecutively in album P.14416-R. P.14416-R-25 is listed in a handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1), bracketed together with the 5 other cards from the same series and priced as 'the six for £1.4/6 [£1, 4 shillings and sixpence]'. The other 5 cards in the group are: P.14416-R-22, P.14416-R-23, P.14416-R-24, P.14416-R-26 and P.14416-R-27. 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/215170 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1380 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1380 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_14416_R_25_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 804 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_25_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 637 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_25_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 804 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_25_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 318 pixels width: 250 pixels