IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214456 accession number: P.14346-R-70 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 4to-sized thin, white wove paper printed with a decorative woodcut border incorporating a bee motif at all four corners. The border has been delicately tinted with a grey wash. A hand-coloured woodcut at the centre shows a couple on their way to church to be married. The female figure wears a veil and her partner gestures towards a distant church with his left arm. Verses above and below the central image: "My dear delightful Valentine, / No language can the [sic] charms express, / And I must make thy beauties mine, / Ere I can taste true happiness, ... ". Printed at lower centre: "London S, Marks and Sons.". A white sticker with a blue border is affixed to the recto at upper right with hand-written inscription in black ink: "H X". The inside pages are blank. From a series. One of 7 prints of a similar style bought at auction. A clipping from the sale catalogue is pasted to the album leaf below P.14346-R-63: "Old Valentines - continued / 752 Coloured Sentimental Examples - 7in / all, 4to size, 1 pubd. By A. Park, of Fins- / bury, the others by S. Marks and Son, / each with blank fly-sheet, and coloured / woodcut borders, nice state, 185 - 17s 6d / ...". This group of valentines appears to have been bought in 1924 from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. The bookseller's catalogue (No. 35), with several lot descriptions cut from it, was found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. It should be noted that there are two examples by A. Park in the group. See also: P.14346-R-63; P.14346-R-64; P.14346-R-65; P.14346-R-66; P.14346-R-67; P.14346-R-68. The V&A also holds examples of these prints with bee motif woodcut borders that were produced by S. Marks: See E.2046-1953 and E.2062-1953, which have been given a date of circa 1850. 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/214456 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: S. Marks & Sons IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_70_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 718 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14346_R_70_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 713 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_70_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 718 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14346_R_70_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 357 pixels width: 250 pixels