IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215126 accession number: P.14414-R-135 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 27 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A mourning or 'Adieu' valentine. A large 4to-size white lace-paper panel with a scalloped edge and a central oval window is mounted over a watercolour scene on paper which is mounted onto a slightly larger sheet of pink-coloured card. A scene of rocks and water at sunset is visible through the oval window, onto which is affixed cut-paper lithographed and hand-coloured figures of an angel in pale blue drapery bearing a dark-haired woman in pink, with hands pressed together in prayer, up to heaven. A lace-paper edged lozenge affixed at lower centre is hand-painted with the word, 'FAREWELL'. The lozenge is stamped 'ROCK' at lower right. A hand-drawn border of red paint with a flower motif pattern is drawn on the card mount around the edges of the lace-paper. On the verso is an inscription in graphite in an unknown hand: 'A mourning or Adieu Valentine / c. 183- / Mourning Valentines / are scarce'. This inscription repeats the sale information given in a sale catalogue clipping which is affixed to the back fly leaf beside P.14414-R-135: 'Old Valentines - continued. / 585 An "Adieu" Valentine ... c. 183- ... Mourning valentines are scarce.'. This valentine appears to have been bought in 1924 from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. The bookseller's catalogue (No. 36), with several lot descriptions cut from it, was found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. 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/215126 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Rock & Co. EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Object of My Affection: Stories of Love from the Fitzwilliam Collection IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_135_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 916 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_135_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 559 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_135_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 916 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_135_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 279 pixels width: 250 pixels