IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214153 accession number: P.14343-R-87 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Wednesday 3 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: An example of one of Rimmel's series of twelve so-called 'Animated Flowers' valentines. Others included, holly as representing attachment and hawthorn as representing hope. All twelve were illustrated by French artist, Jules Chéret. A delicate, lace-paper border around a large, central panel containing a chromolithograph of a young woman dressed as a white lily, with text printed in blue on the right; "lily / purity" and with the printed verse in pink ink below: "I cannot gaze on aught that wears / the beauty of the skies / or aught that in life's valley bears / the blues of Paradise ... / Sargent". The artist's name, "Chéret" (Jules Chéret) is printed at lower left and an illegible printed name/title at lower right, which is probably the copyright notice, 'ENT STA. HALL.' [Entered at Stationers' Hall] as the notice is printed in this position on other 'Animated Flowers' valentines by Rimmel. See the reproduction of an 'Animated Flowers' valentine at: http://www.valentinecollectors.com/rimmel/, an online exhibition of Rimmel's valentines (Date of visit to site: 17 February 2016). E. RIMMEL / PERFUMER / LONDON & PARIS is blind-embossed inside a rectangular panel within the lace-paper border at lower centre. See advert for Rimmel's perfumed valentines, 1867, which describes the types of valentines produced by Rimmel at this date: http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/490668/rimmels-perfumed-valentines/ (Date of visit to site: 17 February 2016). Also, John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Rimmel's Perfumed Valentines, advertising leaflet, 1867, JJ: Stationery 9. (C). 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/214153 TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Chéret, Jules maker: Rimmel, Eugène 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_14343_R_87_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 678 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14343_R_87_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 755 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14343_R_87_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 678 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14343_R_87_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 378 pixels width: 250 pixels