IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215027 accession number: P.14414-R-36 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A small, square valentine of white lace-paper with an embossed border of leaves and flowers. A central oval panel has been cut into a window and backed with a white silk panel onto which is mounted a collage of coloured silk leaves and a cut-paper hand-coloured flower with hand-painted stems. The front paper is adhered to the back. A graphite inscription is written onto the album leaf above the card: '3/-' [3 shillings]. The price is presumaby written inside the card or on the verso. The hand is recognisable as that of Miss Catherine Parsons and is seen in other albums throughout the collection, documenting and transcribing inscriptions, prices and maker's names. Catherine Parsons was a close friend of Glaisher towards the end of his life and undertook to arrange and mount his valentine collection into albums from the Autumn of 1924 through to the Summer of the following year and beyond. 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/215027 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring 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_14414_R_36_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 935 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_36_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 457 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_36_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 935 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_36_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 228 pixels width: 250 pixels