IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215316 accession number: P.14417-R-87 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Embossed white lace-paper (front adhered to the back) with a central roundel containing an uncoloured lithograph in black ink of a marriage ceremony. The roundel has a frame of gold leaf. Affixed at upper centre is a medallion with a similar frame of gold leaf which contains a lithograph of a flaming torch crossed with a bow and quiver of arrows. A paper swag printed in gold lithography is affixed at lower centre and bears the verse: 'Say will such happiness be mine / my ever dearest Valentine.'. Similar in style to two other valentines with the same lace-paper design and central roundels containing hand-coloured lithographs which are all probably by the same hand and mounted on adjacent leaves of album P.14417-R. See P.14417-R-84 and P.14417-R-86. 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/215316 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage 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_14417_R_87_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 893 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14417_R_87_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 573 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_87_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 893 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14417_R_87_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 287 pixels width: 250 pixels