These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
12mo-size white wove paper with waved 'solomonic' embossed border. At the centre is a heart-shaped window with a scalloped edge and a blind of pink tissue paper decorated with stencilled leaves and stems and an applied hand-cut and hand-coloured flower. A 'scallop shell' border in gold ink is lithographed around the outer edge of the window. A lithographed verse in gold ink is located above and below the window: 'Naught on earth so dear to me / As to know my love return'd by thee'. Leafy stems with applied silver paper butterfly ornaments are lithographed in green ink at upper and lower centre. A 'scallop shell' edging is lithographed in gold ink. The front paper is adhered to the back paper. There are other cards of a similar design in album P.14414-R, all of which employ the same wavy, embossed border. One of these, P.14414-R-60, also has a central window with scalloped edge and P.14414-R-20 employs similar lithographed leafy branches and gold 'scallop shell' border.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1830
-
Circa
1840
Watercolour
Lithography
Collage
Accession number: P.14414-R-88
Primary reference Number: 215079
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/215079 Accessed: 2024-11-13 05:09:15
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/215079
|title=Valentine card
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-13 05:09:15|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-215079
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_88_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg"
alt="Valentine card"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Valentine card</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
