IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215019 accession number: P.14414-R-28 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A home-made valentine consisting of a large 8vo sheet of pink wove paper mounted with several cut-outs of hand-coloured lithographs of insects, including moths, butterflies, bees, beetles and mayflies, which are pasted onto the paper in a circular arrangement. A panel of white wove paper with a shaped edge, hand-coloured in green is affixed at the centre. A window cut into the panel at the centre has a gauze blind which is mounted with a gold paper cornucopia filled with cut-paper coloured leaves and flowers. A decorative border of green and silver paper leaves and small red foil ornaments as flowers/berries is arranged around the edge of the gauze blind. A verse is lithographed onto the panel in blue ink at upper and lower centre: 'Affection is a heavenly boon / Which cannot be bestowed to soon'. 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/215019 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_28_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 954 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_28_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 537 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_28_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 954 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_28_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 268 pixels width: 250 pixels