IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206496 accession number: P.14342-R-16 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Wednesday 5 May 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Embossed paper with flowers in green and silver, with a central oval silk panel with silver lace-paper border, hand-painted (as embroidery) with the motto "FAITHFUL / TO THEE". The panel opens with a lilac ribbon to reveal a Baxter process print of a lady with a bird in a birdcage. The print was made by valentine manufacturer, Joseph Mansell and has been cut out and pasted onto the inside page. It is not known if Mansell was also the manufacturer of the embossed front paper or other elements of the valentine, however. Joseph Mansell became 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. This particular image is known as 'The Bird Cage' and is one of a set of eight featuring women involved in various leisure pursuits. 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 32, Ladies at Leisure, reproduced as no. 132, 'The Bird Cage', p. 45. 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/206496 TECHNIQUES ---------- aquatint TECHNIQUES ---------- Baxter-process print TECHNIQUES ---------- embossing CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mansell, Joseph IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_16_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 696 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14342_R_16_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 736 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_16_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 696 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14342_R_16_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 368 pixels width: 250 pixels