IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214807 accession number: P.14412-R-83 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Small 48mo-size playing-card-style comic valentine with imported chromolithographed figure incorporating opening flaps. The single piece of card has a gilt embossed border with scalloped edges and lithographed lilac ground with scroll design. A portly male figure wearing a tasselled cap holds two sacks of money with flaps which open to reveal a flower bouquet and a piglet. The figure lifts up to reveal a chromolithographed motto: "Forget me not". From a series and one of eight examples of playing-card style comic valentines employing imported chromolithographed figure scraps with opening flaps that are mounted onto the same album leaf. A handwritten inscription in graphite on the album leaf: "Original price 4d [4 pennies] each". The hand has been identified as that of Glaisher's friend, the local Antiquarian, Catherine Parsons, who assembled and arranged Glaisher's valentine albums in 1924. See letters from J.W.L. Glaisher to Miss Catherine Parsons in the Fitzwilliam Museum Archive. An additional graphite inscription below P.14412-R-83: "1/=" [1 shilling]. 1 shilling was equivalent to 12 pennies. It is possible that this inscription relates to writing on the verso of P.14412-R-84. 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/214807 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_83_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 910 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14412_R_83_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_14412_R_83_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 910 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14412_R_83_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 281 pixels width: 250 pixels