IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215499 accession number: P.14554-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 27 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A valentine of white lace-paper front with a frame of white and silver lace-paper with pale blue hand colouring mounted on paper springs. A scrap of a flaming heart is pasted onto the frame at upper centre and a collage of two purple satin leaves edged with gold and a scrap of a gateway are pasted at lower centre. At the centre of the frame is a chromolithograped scrap of a dark-haired female head inside a large pink rose, surrounded by rose buds and forget me nots. The scrap lifts up to reveal a verse printed onto a roundel of white silk within a gilt embossed circular frame: 'I Love Thee, Dearest / Time fails to tell--How true / my heart is thine; -- And / could I ever by thy side be / near thee, -- I'd breathe my / wishes to my Valentine.'. The front lacks a back paper and is pasted onto a larger piece of thick card, which has been cut down from a larger sheet, as is evident from the remains of four scrapbook prints on the verso. P.14554-R was contained inside a small manilla envelope inscribed in black ink in Glaisher's hand: '159 / Bought from Hiscoke's Library, Richmond / July 30, 1928.'. E.W. Hiscoke sent Glaisher three prints on approval, which he described as 'kind of valentines'. See handwritten note on Hiscoke's Library headed paper, dated September 8th 1928, Valentinesarchive5. It is not known if Glaisher bought Hiscoke's offerings. 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/215499 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Object of My Affection: Stories of Love from the Fitzwilliam Collection IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14554_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 945 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14554_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 542 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14554_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 945 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14554_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 271 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14554_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 939 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14554_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 545 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14554_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 939 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14554_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 273 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14554_R_3_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 892 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14554_R_3_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 436 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14554_R_3_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 892 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14554_R_3_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 218 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14554_R_4_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 897 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14554_R_4_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 438 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14554_R_4_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 897 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14554_R_4_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 219 pixels width: 250 pixels