IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215227 accession number: P.14416-R-82 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A comic valentine. A hand-coloured lithograph on white wove paper. A brass, candle-holder holds a lit candle which is printed with the motto: 'NOURISH THE / FLAME OF LOVE'. Resting on the base of the candle-holder is a pair of snuffers (the box would hold the trimmed wicks) and an extinguisher with hanging loop. The extinguisher has a remnant of applied paper at the tip, which suggests that the card may have originally included a moveable part. On the left, a small, skirted putto tries to catch a pink butterfly from behind an oil lamp with a flower-patterned ceramic base and on the right, another small skirted putto looks into a glass filled with liquid and a containing a spoon. A comic verse is printed at lower centre: 'Like this taper brightly burning / In my heart young love doth smoulder; / Extinguish not my hopes by spurning, / Nor snuff my love with the cold shoulder.'. The back paper is missing. 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/215227 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_82_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 636 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_82_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 805 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_82_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 636 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_82_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 403 pixels width: 250 pixels