IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215135 accession number: P.14414-R-L9 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Loose inside album P.14414-R between nos 58 and 59. White wove paper with an embossed border design of flowers and acanthus scrolls. Early lithography in blue ink of a scalloped border with leafy branches surrounds a central panel of white lace paper mounted with a small puzzle purse (blank interior) decorated with a stencilled yellow and red tulip flower with stems and leaves. Small silver paper ornaments of birds carrying letters at centre left and right and a pair of clasped hands at lower centre. Lithographed verse in blue ink (missing in places) surrounds the central design: 'Life is sweet love so are flowers / So are loves [sic] bright sunny hours / Naught on earth so dear to me / As to know my love returned by thee'. 'G. KERSHAW LONDON' stamped at lower centre. The interior is blank. See also P.14414-R-56 and P.14414-R-58, other similar Kershaw designs with puzzle purses, which are are mounted in the same album. 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/215135 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage TECHNIQUES ---------- gouache CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kershaw, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_L9_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 946 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_L9_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 541 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_L9_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 946 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_L9_1_201607_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 271 pixels width: 250 pixels