IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215222 accession number: P.14416-R-77 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-coloured lithograph on 8vo-size white wove paper with an embossed border of a scallop shell design. An ornate escutcheon design with a central roundel containing an image of a lady in red and blue reading a letter, the envelope in her lap. Flowers (yellow and red striped tulips, blue morning glory flowers, pink roses etc.) spill out of the top of the escutcheon and around the lower edge. A verse is printed at upper and lower centre: 'I FEAR thy kisses. gentle maiden. / Thou needest not fear mine: / My spirit is too deeply laden / Ever to burthen thine. / I fear thy mien. thy tones. thy motion. / Thou needest not fear mine: / Innocent is the heart's devotion / With which I worship thine.'. The interior is blank. The front is adhered to the back at lower right. 'G. KERSHAW LONDON' stamped along the lower edge. Another design from the same series by Kershaw is mounted onto the adjacent leaf of album P.14416-R. See P.14416-R-76. This card is listed along with P.14416-R-76 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), the two bracketed together and priced as 'the 2 for 6/6'. 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/215222 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: Kershaw, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_77_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 860 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_77_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 595 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_77_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 860 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_77_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 298 pixels width: 250 pixels