IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214277 accession number: P.14344-R-60 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A 4to-sized valentine on thin, white wove paper with an applied passion flower of twisted paper at the centre. An ornate, lithographed border design of basket-weave in gold and green ink (reminiscent of Coalbrookdale porcelain design - which is interesting considering that Glaisher was a reknowned collector of English and continental ceramics) and with yellow, pink and red hand colouring used for butterflies, flowers and a flaming torch and quiver of arrows. Yellow roses, printed and hand-coloured are pasted onto the paper at upper and lower centre. A hand-written inscription in blue ink: "Believe my heart will ever prove / faithful unto thee my love". At the centre is a hand-drawn roundel of gold ink with scalloped inner edge and radiating strokes around the outer edge. Inside the roundel, the applied passion flower is hand-coloured and constructed from twisted paper which can be pulled upwards into a 'raised' position. A similar flower can be seen applied to another valentine, P.14414-R-19. It is common for such a device to have revealed a message when untwisted, but this does not appear to be the case here. "85" inscribed in black ink at lower right followed by "13 /" in graphite [/ denotes shillings]. The inside pages are blank. An example of a similar applied flower can be seen at the Pinterest site of the National Valentine Collectors Association, in collaboration with the John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/424393964866039892/. This card is in the collection of Nancy Rosin and is dated c. 1825. Certainly, the hand-drawn and hand-coloured elements make it possible that this Valentine is quite early in date, circa 1820s or 1830s. It is comparable in size and style to P.14344-R-61. 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/214277 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_60_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 810 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14344_R_60_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 632 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_60_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 810 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14344_R_60_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 316 pixels width: 250 pixels