Skip to main content

Valentine card: P.14620-R

An image of Valentine card
View image details

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Alternative views

An image of Valentine card
Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Mossman, David (paper manufacturer and embosser)

Entities

Categories

Description

A valentine front of gilt lace-paper with a central white paper panel with lithographed gilt design. At the centre is a large, embossed scrap of a winged fairy figure among forget-me-nots. The scrap is designed to be lifted up to reveal a verse or message, but the paper below is blank. A chromolithographed scrap with flowers and verse is affixed at lower centre: 'May flowers of / Love around thee be twined and / the sunshine of peace shed its joy o'er the mind'. MOSSMAN is stamped along the spine at centre left. The white lace-paper has an adhered backing of pale green tissue paper. The back paper is missing.

Legal notes

Given by Sir Stephen Gaselee, 1942

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1942) by Gaselee, Stephen

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14620-R
Primary reference Number: 215580

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 6 May 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215580 Accessed: 2025-12-09 13:16:05

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215580 |title=Valentine card |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-09 13:16:05|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-215580

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14620_R_1_201704_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Valentine card"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Valentine card</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo