IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214994 accession number: P.14414-R-3 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A large 4to-size valentine of white wove paper with a scallop shell embossed border design and small, novelty envelope of white lace-paper affixed at the centre. The envelope may originally have contained a message or keepsake but is now empty. Above and below and intersecting with the envelope are two collages of cut-paper, lithographed and hand-coloured flowers with applied fabric leaves and stencilled leaves with hand-drawn stems and tendrils. A silver paper love knot ornament is affixed at centre right. Remnants of glue at centre left suggests that a similar ornament was affixed here, but is now lost. A hand-written verse is written above and below the central decoration: 'Sweet is the love that meets return / Like two fond hearts that fiercely burn'. Stamped at lower left and lower right: 'G KERSHAW'; 'LONDON'. The interior is blank. On the verso are graphite inscriptions: '600 / 8/6' [repeats the information from the sale clipping pasted below] and 'G Kershaw'. A clipping from a sale catalogue is pasted onto the paper: '600 / Envelope centre - 4to, size, broad crinkled imit. lace border, with dainty lace envelope centre ..., c. 184- / 8s 6d ...'. This valentine was one of several bought in 1924 from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. The bookseller's catalogue (No. 36), with several lot descriptions cut from it, was found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. See P.14530-R. 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/214994 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kershaw, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_3_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 967 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_3_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 529 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_3_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 967 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_3_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 265 pixels width: 250 pixels