IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214494 accession number: P.14349-R-18 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Postcard-style valentine featuring a hand-painted scene of a castle on a rocky island, water in the middleground. This is probably a view of Mont St. Michel in Normandy, France. An arrangment of forget-me-nots frames the view at lower left and two yellow butterflies add interest at upper right. A handwritten message at lower centre: "Je vous aime" [I love you]. An inscription in graphite written onto the album leaf below this card: "E. Rimmel", suggests that the maker of the card is Eugene Rimmel. The lack of any maker's stamps on the card and the lack of clarity about the identity of the author of the inscription makes this attribution uncertain. Rimmel produced a wide variety of cards and it is possible that the scene represents one of Rimmel's 'hand-painted cards, highly artistic', which were sold for between 2/6 and 10/6 [10 shillings and sixpence] before it was mounted onto stamped card. See the following advertisement from an 1879 Drury Lane programme which lists Rimmel's range of cards: https://johnjohnsoncollectionnowandthen.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/johnson10-can-0004-0.jpg. The John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford contains a very large collection of valentines and related valentines material. 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/214494 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- bodycolour CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14349_R_18_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 909 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14349_R_18_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 563 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14349_R_18_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 909 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14349_R_18_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 282 pixels width: 250 pixels