IDENTIFIERS
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id:	206590
accession number:	P.14348-R-2

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 13 August 2015
updated:	Friday 26 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Valentine card of cream laid paper, roughly 8vo size with a lithograph of black ink (uncoloured) of a circular garland of flowers tied at upper centre with a bow. The lithographic drawing details the outlines of the flowers and leaves only and the design was obviously intended for hand-colouring. The garland encircles a medallion at the centre which contains a depiction of a true-love knot titled above and below: THE ENDLESS / KNOT OF LOVE. The true-love knot was common in early manifestation of valentines of the mid 17th century and contains a message that can be read at random from any line, having neither a beginning or an end. The knot in this print contains lines, reading from top left: "Love is a virtue that endures for Ever, A link of matchless jewels none can Sever …". The inside pages are blank. One of a series of cards on cream laid paper with uncoloured lithographs, apparently all later reprints, the designs possibly taken from collections of love poetry published in the early nineteenth century by James Kendrew of York, and mounted in album P.14348-R.
title:	Valentine card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206590





TECHNIQUES
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lithograph

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


IMAGES

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surrogate: original
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surrogate: preview
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