IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214539 accession number: P.14374-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Small 48mo playing-card-style 'men and flowers' themed comic valentine with a die-stamped 'lace' edge. A chromolithograph with rounded corners affixed to the centre of 'lace'-edged white card, features an older man with a head like a sunflower, his face at the centre, wearing a blue frock coat decorated with insignia and placing his right hand on his breast. A chromolithographed scrap at upper centre with the motto: FRIENDSHIP LOVE AND TRUTH. On the verso: "4" written in graphite; "1840s" written very faintly in graphite. This card was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 74. From a series featuring men with flowers or as hybrid flowers and originally mounted in album P.14412-R as one of nine from the same series. P.14412-R-89 and P.14412-R-90 are duplicates, although each has a different motto. The quality of the art-work in this series is high, although neither the artist nor the manufacturer are known. Almost certainly originally contained inside a cream envelope found loose on the same leaf of the album and inscribed in hand-written black ink: "Flower type / c. 184-" and "8" written in blue crayon. The envelope possibly originated with a dealer who was sending Glaisher valentines on approval. 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/214539 TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14374_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1021 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14374_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 501 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14374_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1021 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14374_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 251 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14374_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 978 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14374_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 478 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14374_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 978 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14374_R_2_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 239 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/711/large_P_14374_R_2_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 978 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/711/mid_P_14374_R_2_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 478 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/711/P_14374_R_2_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 3755 pixels width: 3931 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/711/preview_P_14374_R_2_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 239 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/712/large_P_14374_R_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1026 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/712/mid_P_14374_R_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 501 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/712/P_14374_R_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 3726 pixels width: 3717 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/712/preview_P_14374_R_1_201703_amt49_mas.jpg height: 251 pixels width: 250 pixels