IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215542 accession number: P.14597-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 6 July 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A double-sided valentine with chromolithographed and embossed flower sprays with gilt crosses and blue, silk fringing around the edges. On the recto is a cream rose and pink rose bud and quaker grass entwined around a gilt cross. A lithographed verse below: 'I wish my pen had eloquence to tell / How much I love thee for I love thee well'. The card is unmarked, but the style and design are very closely comparable with the folding, silk fringed cards with chromolithographed flower sprays produced by Thomas Stevens in the mid 1870s. Compare also with P.14594-R, a similar card with silk fringing contained loose inside the same red envelope. On the verso is a couple of white narcissi with vine leaves entwined around a gilt cross. A lithographed verse below: 'Dear love, the truth I gladly own / My heart doth beat for thee alone.'. A handwritten inscription in graphite on the recto at lower right: 'M Lattimer, Carlisle Feb 14, 1880'. The same handwriting and location (Carlisle) is seen in two other valentines found loose inside the same red envelope. See also P.14593-R and P.14598-R. The hand is closely comparable to that of Catherine Parsons, who arranged Glaisher's valentine collection into albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond. See letters from Glaisher to Parsons in the Fitzwilliam Museum archive. 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/215542 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14597_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14597_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14597_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14597_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14597_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 810 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14597_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 632 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14597_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 810 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14597_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 316 pixels width: 250 pixels