IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214581 accession number: P.14410-R-6 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching, engraving and hand-colouring on one sheet of white wove paper. Central image within an etched frame of a couple wearing regency dress, the woman as a bride in white, sleeping beside a shrine within a temple and secured with a golden chain by the gentleman. Hymen hovering to the left, secures the chain to the shrine with a padlock. Hymen's flaming torch is seen on the ground below the shrine. Decorative vignettes of doves with laurel branches and hearts pierced with arrows chained to flaming torches at upper and lower corners. Engraved title below central image: HYMEN'S GOLDEN CHAIN. From a series of Hymen subjects. See also P.14410-R-3. 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. 7. A graphite number "7" 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/214581 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- engraving 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_6_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 762 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_6_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 672 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_6_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 762 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_6_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels