IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215388 accession number: P.14418-R-40 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A comic valentine with novelty portrait album. A single sheet of white paper with an embossed design of roses at each corner and along left and right sides. A scalloped outer edge and inner border of lace-paper latticework. A hand-written (or lithographed) title and message at upper and lower centre: 'The / Valentine Album / Containing 6 Portraits / You are at perfect liberty / To choose the one / most suited to your own / Individual Case.'. Mounted at the centre is a novelty book with a glazed, lithographed and hand-coloured cover design, to appear as an album with a 'metal' fastener at the right side, and coloured in yellow, red, green, blue and gold inks. Inside are several pages of hand-coloured lithographs of various animals, including a goose, snake, monkey and donkey/ass. 'MEEK' is stamped onto the white paper at lower centre. 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/215388 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meek, George