IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206556 accession number: P.14342-R-76 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Wednesday 13 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A heavily-collaged valentine of silvered and embossed lace-paper of a design of climbing roses. A central aperture with gauze blind mounted with large sprays of fabric flowers, cut-paper leaves and real grasses. A central bouquet of white and blue fabric flowers, leaves and grasses. An interior silvered paper frame is visible through the blind, which when opened reveals a central medallion inscribed in pen and ink: 'To Diana'. On the verso is an extensive missive and verse, 'Virelay', from a suitor of the actress Diana from whom two further valentines are contained in this album (See also nos. 49 and 52 and the record for the album, P.14342-R): 'I love the good old customs / of St Valentine's famed day / So with right good will / I seize a quill / to indite a Virelay / to my Ladye Fayre / with the golden hair / who at Brighton now doth stay / _Virelay_ / Although far away Love / near the Deep Sea / My dreams night & day Love / are ever of thee / For thy return Love / I watch wearily / my eyes they still yearn Love / my own one to see / So homewards quick fly Love / and once more let me / as in days gone bye Love / thy Valentine be'. Signed with a monogram which is rendered illegible by the trimming of the paper along the lower edge, possibly to erase the identity of the sender. 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/206556 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- embossing TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1870 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_76_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 682 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14342_R_76_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 751 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_76_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 682 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14342_R_76_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels