IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214956 accession number: P.14413-R-107 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A small, 48mo-size 'raised' valentine comprising a top layer of lace-paper with central oval window, decorated with gilt embossed flowers in each corner and mounted with paper springs to a second layer of white embossed paper with shaped edges tinted blue. A large flower scrap is affixed over the central window and lifts up to reveal a letterpress verse printed on a circle of lilac paper with a crimped edge: 'BELIEVE ME / Lovely thou art, / ay lovely, / In spirit and in form; / A sunbeam glancing / o'er life's tears, / A rainbow through / the storm'. The second layer of embossed paper is decorated with scraps of violet garlands at upper and lower centre. The front paper is adhered to the back paper. 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/214956 TECHNIQUES ---------- letterpress TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1870 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_107_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 991 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14413_R_107_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 517 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14413_R_107_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 991 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14413_R_107_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 258 pixels width: 250 pixels