IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215218 accession number: P.14416-R-73 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A lithograph with hand colouring on white wove paper. A lithographed border of a mock picture frame with reeded horizontals and verticals and baroque mouldings at the corners surrounds a second lozenge-shaped 'frame' at the centre which contains a hand-coloured scene of a couple seated in a garden, the gentleman holding the hand of the lady who wears a pink dress. 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 eight valentines from the same series which are mounted onto consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below P.14416-R-66 indicates that each was bought for 1 shilling and sixpence. This pricing was probably transcribed from the handwritten MS by second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1), which records the first line of one of the eight followed by the price: 'To you my souls [sic] affection move [P.14416-R-72] & 7 other similar (8) for 12/0'. The '7 other similar' cards from the group of eight can be identified as: P.14416-R-66, P.14416-R-67, P.14416-R-68, P.14416-R-69, P.14416-R-70, P.14416-R-71 and P.14416-R-73. P.14416-R-35, a smaller card with only the inner lozenge-shaped frame, 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/215218 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_73_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 843 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_73_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_73_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 843 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_73_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels