IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214999 accession number: P.14414-R-8 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-made valentine consisting of a single sheet of 8vo-size pink wove paper mounted with 'brackets' of white lace paper at each corner and a central oval-shaped scalloped border of white lace-paper with a rice-paper centre decorated with a stencilled scene painted in gouache of a coloured bird carrying a letter in its beak with flowers below. At lower centre, inbetween the scalloped indentations of the border, is a hand-written message in black ink (presumably in the sender's hand): 'I love you dearly'. The verso is blank. 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/214999 TECHNIQUES ---------- collage TECHNIQUES ---------- gouache 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_14414_R_8_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 842 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_8_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 608 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_8_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 842 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_8_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels