IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215180 accession number: P.14416-R-35 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-coloured lithograph with an ornate printed 'frame' on pale pink wove paper. The frame contains a half-length view of a couple reading a letter together, the young woman sitting on the knee of the young man. The figures are framed by leaves and hanging fruits. A verse is printed above: 'I've often wished to have a Friend / With whom my sweetest hours to spend / To whom I safely might impart / Each wish and weakness of my heart ... And to secure my bliss for life / I'd wish that Friend to be my Wife'. The interior is blank. One of six valentines from the same series, all with the same ornate printed frame on pale pink or white paper, and which are mounted together in album P.14416-R. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '6 for 4/ [6 for 4 shillings]'. This presumably records a price from the verso which was visible prior to mounting, but was probably transcribed from 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), where P.14416-R-35 is listed with the description '& 5 similar (the six for) 4/0'. The other 5 can be identified as: P.14416-R-34, P.14416-R-36, P.14416-R-38, P.14416-R-39 and P.14416-R-40. P.14416-R-73, a larger card with an additional lithographed mock picture frame border, employs the same verse. 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/215180 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_35_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 642 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_35_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 798 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_35_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 642 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_35_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 399 pixels width: 250 pixels