IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215501 accession number: P.14556-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Monday 3 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: P.14556-R, a sachet valentine, was contained inside a white envelope with an embossed design and handwritten address. The sachet is enclosed within an envelope of white, coated thin card with embossed lace work with gilt decoration, incorporating a lattice design with rosettes and entwining stems. A large, chromolithographed and embossed flower scrap is pasted within an ornate oval frame on the recto. It has been glued down where it might have lifted up to reveal a printed verse on the blank white oval behind. Four flaps on the verso open to reveal the sachet which has a chromolithographed cover of blossom against a black background and incorporating a motto in gothic script: 'Ne'er from thy heart my memory blot / ask but this Forget me not.'. The sachet has a border of applied strips of chromolithographed marigold garlands. The sachet valentine was posted to Glaisher by person unknown inside a white envelope with embossed design, incorporating oval shields, rosettes and Greek Key design with Hymen's torch and a posy of flowers in place of a seal. It is addressed quite simply by hand in black ink: 'Dr Glaisher / Trinity College / Cambridge'. At the upper right corner of the envelope is a stamp of cost 'three halfpence', and bearing the head of George V. The envelope is postmarked: '13 FE / 25'. The valentine and envelope appear to have been bought together as a matching set c. 1925, with the design referencing earlier valentines of the 1870s and 1880. Although letters in the Fitzwilliam Museum Archive from Glaisher to Catherine Parsons give details of valentines that were sent to him by Parsons and others, including friends, acquaintances and dealers, these were almost always intended as additions to Glaisher's valentine collection rather than as valentines per se. 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/215501 TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1925 - 1925 creation date earliest: 1925 creation date latest: 1925 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14556_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 963 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14556_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 470 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14556_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 963 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14556_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 235 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14556_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 967 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14556_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 472 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14556_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 967 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14556_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 236 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14556_R_3_201611_amt49.jpg height: 945 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14556_R_3_201611_amt49.jpg height: 461 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14556_R_3_201611_amt49.jpg height: 945 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14556_R_3_201611_amt49.jpg height: 231 pixels width: 250 pixels