IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214392 accession number: P.14346-R-6 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Wednesday 3 February 2021 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 above and below the central image: "In this recess my passion here let sway / To disappointment my heart's a prey / I cannot long these pangs endure / Despair alone will yeild [sic] a cure." An inner etched border with hand-colouring of a design featuring greyhounds, storks and birds carrying letters surrounds the central panel, which shows a young woman inside a loggia in an attitude of despair, a letter at her feet and a greyhound sitting alert on the right. The inside pages are blank. Compare with two examples of the same number of the series in the collection of the Museum of London, ID:34.170/1 and ID:34.170/698. The colours employed in the hand-colouring of the etched border in all three examples is almost identical, confirming that the artists were following a common guide for each print in the series, although the etched frames were probably completed by cultured amateurs. See also duplicate examples of the series in the Fitzwilliam collection. Frank Staff says of the series: 'The central picture of each shows a delightful aquatint, beautifully coloured and finished by hand. Although some of the scenes depict young ladies in grief, and one shows a jilted lover [presumably the subject of P.14346-R-6], not all of them are unhappy. ... The set numbers fourteen in all, which was recognised as the regular "valentine dozen".' The series was originally published in the 1830s, it is presumed, by Joseph Addenbrooke. However, according to Frank Staff: 'It has been noted that a set of this series is known on paper watermarked '1828', with Addenbrooke's name imprinted. Some time later, it seems likely that the plates came into someone else's possession, who filed off Addenbrooke's name from them and reprinted the entire series on un-watermarked paper. This could explain the plentiful supply still available and the comparatively worn state of the embossing on some copies.' See, Frank Staff, _The Valentine & Its Origins_, Lutterworth Press, London, 1969, figure 64, p. 60 and pp. 62-3. The Glaisher examples are on un-watermarked paper and without a maker's stamp and are most likely later reprints. The Museum of London holds examples of these prints, which are later reprints made by Jonathan King and they date them circa 1870-1885. 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/214392 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 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_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 761 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 673 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 761 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/680/large_P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 1245 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/680/mid_P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 608 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/680/P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 3500 pixels width: 2879 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/680/preview_P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/683/large_P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1378 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/683/mid_P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_mas.jpg height: 673 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/683/P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_mas.jpg height: 4630 pixels width: 3441 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/683/preview_P_14346_R_6_1_201702_amt49_mas.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels