IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215390 accession number: P.14418-R-42 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Monday 29 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Embossed white paper with shaped and scalloped edges, tinted blue. A white and silver embosssed lace-paper 'frame' is overlaid on paper springs (now stuck down). The 'frame' is decorated with a chromolithographed flower scrap with green cut-paper leaves mounted at upper centre and at lower centre, a chromolithographed heart with flowers and cherub with 'LOVE' printed above. An embossed, chromolithographed wreath of ivy leaves is mounted on paper springs (now stuck down at the left side) at the centre and contains a rice-paper blind (damaged) mounted with a bunch of fabric forget-me-nots tied with a gold metallic bow. The front paper is adhered to the back paper. An oval medallion with gold printed border and chromolithograph of a winged Cupid sitting on the ground, is pasted to the album leaf below. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf above: '1867', which is probably a transcription of a date found on the verso of the valentine prior to mounting into the album. The hand is recognisable as that of Miss Catherine Parsons and is seen in other albums throughout the collection, documenting and transcribing inscriptions, prices and maker's names. Catherine Parsons was a close friend of Glaisher towards the end of his life and undertook to arrange and mount his valentine collection into albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond. 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/215390 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1867 - 1867 creation date earliest: 1867 creation date latest: 1867 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown