IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215556 accession number: P.14611-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A boxed sachet valentine. A large sachet of white padded silk with 'frame' of silver lace-paper contained inside a shallow white cardboard box with a lid. Two ribbons of white silk are tied across an oval panel of cream lace-paper which is mounted with a collage of cut-paper and chromolithographed flowers and leaves with real grasses and hand-painted additions. A circular chromolithographed scrap with motto affixed at lower centre: 'To Me / Thou Art / Dear'. The verso is backed with white, coated paper. A price is inscribed in graphite: '6/- [6 shillings]'. A small white sticker with 'Valentine' printed in black ink is affixed onto the verso at upper centre. The base of the box is lined with white lace-paper around the edges. An inscription in graphite on the lid: '2 large Satchet [sic] Valentines / 12/6'. The inscription possibly relates also to P.14610-R. Several inscriptions on the verso of the base; handwritten in graphite and possibly relating to the original sender/recipient: 'Fa [...]-Ma[..] / S.W. Hotel'; handwritten in black ink, a mathematical calculation (Glaisher's hand?). 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/215556 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1870 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14611_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 844 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14611_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14611_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 844 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14611_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 303 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14611_R_2_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 827 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14611_R_2_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 404 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14611_R_2_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 827 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14611_R_2_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 202 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14611_R_3_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 626 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14611_R_3_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 818 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14611_R_3_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 626 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14611_R_3_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 250 pixels