IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215516 accession number: P.14571-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Monday 29 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A comic valentine. A hand-coloured woodcut printed on a single sheet of thin, wove paper which at some point was folded into quarters. An attractive young woman seated in an interior engaged in embroidering a heart. She wears a red dress with a large brooch of two hearts pierced with an arrow. A bird cage containing a blue bird hangs above her to the left. A letterpress title and verse is printed below: VALENTINE. / At knitting and netting I'm told you're quite clever;- / Let Cupid, dear girl, knit our two hearts together; / We'll pass our time happy, and free from all strife, / Only say you'll consent to become mine for life.'. The publisher's details printed in letterpress below: '[London : J. Fairburn, Featherstone St., City Road.'. 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/215516 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- letterpress TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Fairburn, J.