IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215200 accession number: P.14416-R-55 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A lithograph with hand colouring on 8vo-size white wove paper. A hand-coloured lithographed border of stylised leaves, vines, flowers and lighthouse motif surrounds a central hand-coloured vignette of a man in Admiral's uniform receiving a letter from Cupid who hovers in a blue cloud on the right, holding his bow in his left hand. A ship is seen on water in the background. 'No 10' is lithographed at the lower right of the image, indicating that this design is one of a series. A verse is printed below in sloping script: 'When the Vessel is tacking about / Ready oh! Ready is then the shout, / ... Love sits aloft in his potent spell, / And points where the Sailor's heart would dwell, / Like the Compass true points to you, / The haven of Love is at last in view.'. The interior is blank. The front is adhered to the back at centre right. The same lighthouse motif is seen in another naval-themed design from the same series, P.14416-R-62. One of a series of similar designs in the same style which are mounted on consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1). This card is listed with three of these designs, P.14416-R-57, P.14416-R-61 and P.14416-R-62, in a handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R, with all four bracketed together and priced as 'the four for 10/0 [10 shillings]'. Eight further valentines from this group are also found on the Frampton list, bracketed together and priced at '8 for £1-4-0'. See P.14416-R-51, P.14416-R-52, P.14416-R-53 and P.14416-R-54, P.14416-R-56, P.14416-R-58, P.14416-R-59 and P.14416-R-60. 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/215200 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_55_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 868 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_55_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 590 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_55_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 868 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_55_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 295 pixels width: 250 pixels