IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215552 accession number: P.14607-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A boxed valentine in an original Raphael Tuck box with a lid. Valentine on heavy cream wove paper with an embossed and chromolithographed design of pink roses, with more abstract, uncoloured flowers with gold detail. A real lace border is stitched around the card on both recto and verso. A pink ribbon is tied through the card at centre left. 'Valentine Mine' is embossed in pink glossy ink at lower right and printed in gold ink at lower left: 'FAIR DAYS / to you.'. Inside, a double sheet of cream wove paper is tied into the card with the pink ribbon. On the left-hand inside page: a lithographed image of a dove in flight holding a valentine with two hearts pierced with an arrow; On the right-hand inside page, a lithographed verse: 'WITH MY LOVE / TO MY LOVE / I'd strew rose petals for your feet. / If I might be your Valentine ; / And all the treasures earth conceals, / And all the light the morn reveals, / And all the love that makes life sweet, / Across your pathway they would shine - / If you were but my Valentine!'. The card on the verso is speckled with gold ink. Printed on the verso: 'Raphel Tuck & Sons, Ltd. / Publishers to the King and Queen / Copyright London. / PRODUCED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM / The Lacette Series'. The 'by Royal Appointment' notice dates the card to after 1893. The valentine is contained inside a shallow white cardboard box with lid, the lower half of which bears a Raphael Tuck printed label on the verso: 'MY VALENTINE / DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY / RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD / NO. 11'. P.14354-R is a similar, unboxed valentine by Raphael Tuck. 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/215552 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1893 - 1893 creation date earliest: 1893 creation date latest: 1893 culture: 20th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Tuck, Raphael IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14607_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1015 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14607_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 496 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14607_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1015 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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