IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215497 accession number: P.14552-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A valentine designed for a child on white wove paper with a lace-paper border and rounded corners, contained inside an envelope with P.14553-R. At the centre is a young boy collaged with textile elements and with a chromolithographed head (known as a 'dressed' or 'paper-doll' valentine). The boy wears a dark blue coat and breeches of blue velvet with metallic studs. He wears a hat of black velvet and his stockinged legs are of thin, black, coated paper. A motto printed onto a white and gilt paper scroll is affixed below: 'DEARLY I LOVE YOU'. MULLORD is stamped along the spine at centre left. The interior is blank. An inscription in graphite on the verso in Glaisher's hand: 'Given me by Joan chatterton / Feb 1927'. Letters from Glaisher to Catherine Parsons in the Fitzwilliam Museum archive give details of Glaisher's connection to Joan Chatterton who, like Glaisher, was collector of children's books: 'I have been getting children's books of various kinds from David & Heffer but alas! keeping them myself & not sending them to Joan Chatterton.'. [Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 889-1985, 3 September, 1924 letter to Miss Catherine E. Parsons]. Chatterton also apparently supplied Glaisher with articles on valentines: 'I have also put in today's packet the letterpress of the article on Valentines the pictures for which we looked at yesterday (& which Joan Chatterton sent me) & another article.'. [Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 890-1985, 7 September, 1924 letter to Miss Catherine E. Parsons]. Chatterton also sent Glaisher valentines for his collection, including P.14552-R and P.14553-R: 'Dear Miss Parsons, With my tea yesterday came your valentine, for which indeed I thank you ... (I had one also from Joan Chatterton in Dublin to whom I have sent xmas books) ...'. [Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 923-1985, 15 February, 1925 letter to Miss Catherine E. Parsons]. Several books from Joan Chatterton's collection now form part of the Pollard Collection of children's books in Trinity College Library, Dublin. P.14552-R was contained along with P.14553-R inside a brown manilla envelope with address written in black ink, presumbly in Joan Chatterton's hand: 'Dr Glaisher / Trinity College / Cambridge'. An embossed stamp on the envelope flap: 'PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND LIMITED'. The envelope is stored with P.14552-R. 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/215497 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mullord Bros. 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