IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215355 accession number: P.14418-R-7 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White and silver embossed lace-paper with a design of flowers, putti and scrolling acanthus strapwork. An oval-shaped window at the centre contains a head and shoulders image of a young girl with brown ringleted hair and brown hat with ostrich feather reading a letter. The image is identifiable as a Baxter-process print with a 'key' plate of aquatint with stippling and woodblock colour printing overlaid. This particular design, known as 'The Plume' was produced by Joseph Mansell, who was a licensee of the Baxter-process print, and is seen in other valentines by Mansell; See: http://newbaxtersociety.org/features/2013feb.aspx. Although P.14418-R-7 does not appear to have a maker's stamp, it is almost certainly by Joseph Mansell. A lozenge below the central image bears a lithographed motto printed in blue ink: 'May happiness ever / attend thee'. The front paper is adhered to the back. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf above: '1861'. This is probably a transcription of a date found on the verso of the valentine or inside it prior to mounting into the album. The hand is unknown, but is the same as seen above no. 1 in the same album. See, _A Pictorial Catalogue of Joseph Mansell’s Baxter Process Prints_ compiled by Michael Martin, Brian Lawrence and Roger Smith for the New Baxter Society, 2006, Sheet 28 - Children, reproduced no. 174, 'The Plume', p.51. P.14342-R-33 employs the same Mansell Baxter-process print as a cut-out, but with a slightly different silvered paper design and with a different motto. 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/215355 TECHNIQUES ---------- Baxter-process print CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mansell, Joseph IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 695 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/mid_P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 737 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 695 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/preview_P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 369 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/483/large_P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_mas.jpg height: 1233 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/483/mid_P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_mas.jpg height: 602 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/483/P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_mas.jpg height: 5737 pixels width: 4763 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/483/preview_P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_mas.jpg height: 301 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/501/large_P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 1511 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/501/mid_P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/501/P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 5281 pixels width: 3580 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/501/preview_P_14418_R_7_201712_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 369 pixels width: 250 pixels