IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215240 accession number: P.14417-R-11 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A small roundel of red transparent cellulose, lithographed in gold ink and mounted vertically inside a white and gilt cameo-embossed lace-paper sleeve (a scene of Cupid and tasselled curtain) with a central circular window. The sleeve is contained within a white lace-paper envelope with four flaps which is stamped: 'KERSHAW & SON' along the right-hand edge. A motto is lithographed in gold ink onto the cellulose: 'To an Esteemed Friend'. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below probably transcribes an inscription found on the verso prior to mounting: 'This valentine cost 10 /- in 1925'. The hand is recognisable as that of Miss Catherine Parsons and is seen in other albums throughout the collection, documenting and transcribing inscriptions, prices and maker's names. Catherine Parsons was a close friend of Glaisher towards the end of his life and undertook to arrange and mount his valentine collection into albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond. One of a group of lithographed cellulose valentines mounted or found loose in album P.14417-R, some of which are contained in lace-paper sleeves and/or envelopes. 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/215240 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kershaw, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_11_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 750 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14417_R_11_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_11_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 750 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14417_R_11_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 341 pixels width: 250 pixels