IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214227 accession number: P.14344-R-10 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lace-paper with a large central panel containing a collage of dried grasses, tissue paper leaves and cut-paper, hand-coloured leaves, flowers and birds (with varnish) around a cut-out nest painted in gouache and varnished. A hand-written verse in blue ink above and continued behind the collage: "This is affection's Tribute, Friendship's offering, / whose silent eloquence, more rich than words, / (underneath the tissue paper leaves) speaks of the giver's faith in absence / and says …" (the rest of the inscription obscured by the collage). MEEK blind-embossed at lower centre. The inside of the card is blank. 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/214227 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage TECHNIQUES ---------- gouache CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meek, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_10_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 738 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14344_R_10_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 694 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_10_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 738 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14344_R_10_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 347 pixels width: 250 pixels