IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215329 accession number: P.14417-R-100 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A 'raised' valentine of white, embossed paper with shaped and scalloped edges mounted with a smaller, silver embossed and lace-paper frame on paper springs, which is decorated with blue, crimped ribbon bows at each corner. Mounted on a paper spring at the centre is a panel of silver, embossed lace-paper backed with white silk embroidered with a verse in red and purple thread: 'TO THE ONE I LOVE / Dearest accept this / offering, / From a heart that's truly thine, / My fond thoughts / are in it spoken / To thee, my only / Valentine'. 'MEEK [?& Co.]' is stamped at lower centre (visible from the verso). Inside at upper right is an inscription in graphite: 'S/V'. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '4/6 [4 shillings and sixpence]'. This either relates to an inscription found 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). 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/215329 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1870 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meek, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_100_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 708 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14417_R_100_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 723 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_100_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 708 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14417_R_100_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 250 pixels