IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214579 accession number: P.14410-R-4 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching with hand-colouring on one sheet of white wove paper. Central image within an oval etched frame of a lady wearing regency dress and straw bonnet in a garden, holding a red rose in her right hand and surprised by Cupid hiding in a rose bush who fires an arrow at her. Faint pencil copy of the 'nymph' at upper right (presumably as drawing practice?). Etched verse (numbered stanzes) around the central image: "Fairest nymph beware of roses, / It is where young love reposes, / Pluck a flower and to your heart, / He will send a potent dart. ...". Graphite inscriptions at upper left corner and upper centre: "1822 / rare"; "4 for 30/-" [30 shillings]. Watermark: J WHATMAN /1822. From a series. See also, P.14410-R-36, P.14410-R-40 and P.14410-R-42. 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. 8. A graphite number "8" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue. 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/214579 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1822 - 1822 creation date earliest: 1822 creation date latest: 1822 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_4_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 789 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_4_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_4_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 789 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_4_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 324 pixels width: 250 pixels