IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214387 accession number: P.14346-R-1 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Thursday 29 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Aquatint and etching with hand-colouring on 4to-sized embossed white wove paper. From 'The Despondent Lover' (or 'The Unrequited Love') series. The border is lightly embossed with a design of leaves and flowers with lines of verse etched at upper and lower centre: "The Bird in yonder cage confined / sings but to lovers fond, sincere / On wings of faith and hope, combined / Brings soft emotion, fondly dear." An inner etched border of entwined leaves, flowers, urns and butterflies surrounds the central panel which shows a young woman seated inside a loggia interior clutching a love letter to her breast, a canary in a cage above her to the right and a spaniel at her feet. The etched border has been inexpertly hand-coloured. The inside pages are 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/214387 TECHNIQUES ---------- aquatint TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1828 - 1828 creation date earliest: 1828 creation date latest: 1828 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_1_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 840 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14346_R_1_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 610 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_1_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 840 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14346_R_1_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 305 pixels width: 250 pixels