These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Forget-Me-Not Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A valentine of embossed lace-paper of a design of passion flowers growing on a trellis. The paper is hand coloured. There is a slip of yellow paper behind and a panel is white silk at lower centre which is printed with the title and verse in blue ink: 'Forget-Me-Not. / Amidst the world's gay revelry, / Or in its troubled stream, / Forget me not, let not the past, / Be as a fleeting dream. / Let not the happy hours we shared, / Be past as nothing by, / Forget me not, e'en if you must, / Remember with a sigh'. An oval window at upper centre contains a Baxter-process print by Baxter licensee, Joseph Mansell known as 'Apple Pickers'; a young woman wearing a yellow skirt and sleeves and pink bodice puts fruit into a basket of apples held by a young girl. 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, 'Apple Pickers' reproduced as no. 160, from Sheet H – Country Figures, p.49. The same Mansell Baxter-process print is seen in P.14426-R. The back paper is missing. An initial 'E' is written in graphite on the album leaf below the valentine. The names 'Edith' and 'Netty' are written into the album. These names would probably account for the single initials of 'E' or 'N' written on the album leaves adjacent to a number of the valentines in the album. The initials presumably indicate either from whom they were received or to whom they were sent. The same Mansell Baxter-process print is seen in P.14426-R.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Aquatint
Baxter-process print
Lithography
Accession number: P.14420-R.f26r
Primary reference Number: 215430
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Forget-Me-Not" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215430 Accessed: 2024-11-04 22:14:57
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215430
|title=Forget-Me-Not
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-04 22:14:57|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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-215430
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_14420_R_f26r_1_201706_amt49_dc2.jpg"
alt="Forget-Me-Not"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Forget-Me-Not</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
