IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215452 accession number: P.14421-R.iir DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Monday 29 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: On the recto of the back flyleaf. A small valentine of white embossed card with flowers and gilt detailing with woodblock-printed colour in blue, pink and green. A printed title and verse at the centre: 'UNDYING LOVE / Forget thee! Bid the forest birds / Forget their sweetest tune. / Forget thee! Dare the sun to / shine - / Or check the silvery moon: / Bid thirsty flowers forget to drink / The eve's refreshing dew; / Thyself forget thine own dear / land, / Its mountains wild and blue. / Forget each old familiar face, / Each long-remembered spot - / Forget all these - but not till then / Shalt thou be once forgot.'. To each corner is affixed a small rectangle of monochrome lithographed London landmarks; 'New Houses of Parlt.'; 'Guildhall'; 'London Stone'; 'Westminster Abbey'. 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/215452 TECHNIQUES ---------- woodblock CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown