IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214373 accession number: P.14345-R-88 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: World War I Valentine. Printed at upper left: Salt [slang for sailor]. A large woodcut and lithograph printed in two colours (black and red ink) on a long sheet of folded thin, wove paper. A sailor viewed in three-quarter profile facing right. He is barefoot and holds a rope in his hands. He has tattoos of an anchor and a union flag on his right forearm. A heart is drawn near to his left hand with the message: This is / my heart. / for you. The ribbon on his cap is labelled: VICTO[RY]. HMS Victory was a Royal Navy Shore Base located in the Portsmouth area. A printed verse below: I'm thinkingofyouathomeasyousailtheoceanblue, [no spaces between words on first line] / And send you my heart by post as a token I / shall be true, / If any other chap comes cooing you need not fear, / For I'll make him keep his distance with a / clout upon the ear! See also P.14345-R-87, another World War I Valentine for a sailor. 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/214373 TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1914 - 1918 creation date earliest: 1914 creation date latest: 1918 culture: 20th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14345_R_88_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 554 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14345_R_88_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 924 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14345_R_88_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 554 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14345_R_88_1_201701_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 462 pixels width: 250 pixels