IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215535 accession number: P.14590-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 10 July 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A valentine with an embossed white lace-paper front affixed to a sheet of folded pink, coated paper. At the centre of the embossed lace-paper design is a heart containing the motto: 'WANTED / A / SWEET'. The heart and motto make reference to the confectionary known as the conversation lozenge, which was sold in England and America at the turn of the century. The lace-paper is stained with adhesive. The interior is blank. A price is inscribed in graphite on the verso: '1/6 [1 shilling and sixpence]'. P.14589-R was contained along with seven other valentines inside a brown envelope addressed on the recto to, 'Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, England', a return address given at upper left: 'From / L.M. Franklin / 104 West 39th St[reet] / Baltimore'. Glaisher's friend, the American mathematician, Professor William Woolsey Johnson (1841-1927) lived in Baltimore and Glaisher visited him and his wife on many occasions from the 1880s up to 1916. L.M. Franklin is unknown and may have been an art dealer or second-hand book-seller whom Glaisher met during his trips to Baltimore. Julia Poole has documented Glaisher's friendship with Johnson and his trips to America. See Poole's essay, 'Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, The making of a great collection', in Michael Archer, _Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum_ (2013), p. xvi and n. 25, p. xxvi. See record P.14583-R for further details. 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/215535 CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1890 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1890 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14590_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 925 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14590_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 554 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14590_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 925 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14590_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 277 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14590_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 896 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14590_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 571 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14590_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 896 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14590_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 286 pixels width: 250 pixels