IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214572 accession number: P.14407-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 27 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A small card (just slightly larger than 64mo) of embossed and lace-paper designed as an envelope where a cut-paper male hand places a ring on the finger of a cut-paper female hand. When these are pulled apart, the 'envelope' opens to reveal an embossed and die-cut card with gilded detail and hand-coloured cut-paper flowers and foliage with a central lithographed image in blue ink of a broken blue and white Wedgewood 'wiillow pattern' plate with verse printed above and below: "To shew our esteem for your merits so great, / We present you dear sir with a small piece of plate.". MANSELL stamped on verso. This card almost certainly relates to a sheet of headed notepaper printed with the name and address of the Actons of Brighton, a dealer from whom Glaisher purchased ceramics and which is affixed to the album leaf opposite. See P.14411-R-49. In fact, the arrival from Actons of this 'Wedgewood' valentine and a valentine on the subject of crinolines is documented in a letter from Glaisher to Miss Catherine Parsons: 'The enclosed came this morning & explain themselves. They seem to me worth having. Though the Wedgewood one does not much impress me, I like the crinoline one. ... I am sending the valentines by the 4 o'clock OM [Omnibus]. I will write & tell Miss Acton I am sending them to you to see.'. Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 910-1985, 6 December, 1924, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons.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. 56. 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/214572 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mansell, Joseph 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_14407_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1016 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14407_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 504 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14407_R_1_201703_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1016 pixels 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