IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215560 accession number: P.14615-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Wednesday 3 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A framed valentine. We know from letters written by Glaisher to Catherine Parsons that she encouraged him to frame at least one of his valentines (Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 939-1985, 12th April 1925, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons: 'I quite agree about the Acton one in its box & about framing the pearl one …'.) and P.14615-R is one of four framed valentines in the Glaisher bequest. A 'frame' of gilt and white cameo-embossed lace-paper featuring an archway with lovers, cornucopia and putti, is mounted with paper springs onto a front of white lace-paper. The putti garlanding the archway at upper centre is partially hand coloured. A central oval window contains a Baxter-process print by Joseph Mansell, who was a licensee of the George Baxter colour printing process from around 1850. The print is composed of a 'key' plate of aquatint with stippling and woodblock colour printing overlaid. The image of a couple walking in a garden, the lady wearing flounced crinoline skirts and an ostrich feather in her hat, is one of a series of six images produced by Mansell featuring a courting couple and known as 'Progress of a Courtship'. This particular image is known as 'Courting Days'. See, _A Pictorial Catalogue of Joseph Mansell's Baxter Process Prints_, compiled by Michael Martin, Brian Lawrence, Roger Smith for the New Baxter Society, 2006, Sheet 20 - Progress of a Courtship, reproduced no. 76, 'Courting Days', p. 36. 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/215560 TECHNIQUES ---------- Baxter-process print TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mansell, Joseph EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Object of My Affection: Stories of Love from the Fitzwilliam Collection IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14615_R_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 728 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14615_R_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 703 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14615_R_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 728 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14615_R_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 352 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14615_R_2_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 730 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14615_R_2_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 701 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14615_R_2_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 730 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14615_R_2_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 351 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14615_R_3_201608_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_14615_R_3_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14615_R_3_201608_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_14615_R_3_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14615_R_4_201608_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_14615_R_4_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14615_R_4_201608_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_14615_R_4_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels