IDENTIFIERS
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id:	214515
accession number:	P.14349-R-39

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 14 February 2017
updated:	Friday 26 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A postcard size valentine of white wove paper with embossed and scalloped edge bordering a chromolithograph of three nesting birds (chaffinch, bullfinch and blackbird) entwined with spring flowers (including bluebells and primroses) and two nests containing eggs. The design is set against a silver background with a verse by Sir Phillip Sydney inset on white at centre right: TO MY TRUE LOVE / My true Love hath my heart, and I have his. ... / SIR P. SYDNEY. MARCUS WARD & CO. printed at lower left. ENT. STA. HALL printed at lower right. An example of this card is in the collection of The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, who date it as 1887 (although without supporting references). See: http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15928coll4/id/167/rec/11.
title:	Valentine card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214515





TECHNIQUES
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chromolithography

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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creation date:	1887 - 1887
creation date earliest:	1887
creation date latest:	1887
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Marcus Ward & Co.


IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14349_R_39_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_39_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_39_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_39_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg
height: 282 pixels
width: 250 pixels