IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215069 accession number: P.14414-R-78 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A small, 32mo-size white lace-paper front mounted onto the album leaf. A central oval panel is decorated with a hand-painted and stencilled bouquet of flowers (pink rose, tulip, ?sweet pea) and unfurled scroll with a handwritten inscription in black ink: 'An / offering / at the / shrine of / Love'. 'MEEK' is stamped at lower centre. 'Meek' is also written in graphite onto the album leaf below the card. 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/215069 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meek, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_78_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_78_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_78_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_78_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels