IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215171 accession number: P.14416-R-26 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 red, green, yellow, brown 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 man standing beside a tree on a hill, holding his top hat in his left hand. Fields lie behind him below. A number printed within the illustration at lower left: '32', indicates that this valentine is one of a series. A verse is printed below: 'Dear Youth excuse the answer of a maid / Your passion now I know by what you've said / Now I'm convinced your love's sublime and true / Such as I always wish'd to find on you'. The interior is blank. 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-26 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-25 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/215171 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1830 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_26_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 820 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_26_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 624 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_26_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 820 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_26_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 312 pixels width: 250 pixels