Skip to main content

Think of Me, Love: P.14417-R-98

An image of Valentine card
View image details

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Think of Me, Love
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

Entities

Categories

Description

A highly decorative valentine composed largely of layered white satin leaves (with some losses) arranged on embossed white paper with shaped edges. There are small flower scraps at upper left and lower left and right corners. At the centre is a silver, embossed lace-paper panel to which is affixed a large flower scrap which lifts to reveal a white silk printed with a verse in purple ink: 'Think of Me, Love / The rose needs not the summer light, / the bird needs not the sheltering tree / So much as I in sorrow's / night / Need smiles from thee. …'. The front is adhered to the back. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '3 for 12 /= [12 shillings]'. This either relates to an inscription found inside or on the verso of the card prior to mounting, or is transcribed from a list of valentines bought by Glaisher from a dealer, like that sent to Glaisher by second-hand book dealer, R.S. Frampton (See P.14416-R-L1). P.14417-R-99 is mounted onto the following leaf in the album P.14417-R and is accompanied by the same inscription and therefore similarly identifed as one of three valentines that were bought for 12 shillings.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1870 - Circa 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14417-R-98
Primary reference Number: 215327

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Think of Me, Love" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215327 Accessed: 2025-12-14 18:21:17

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215327 |title=Think of Me, Love |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-14 18:21:17|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-215327

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_98_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Think of Me, Love"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Think of Me, Love</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo