IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215153 accession number: P.14416-R-8 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-coloured lithograph on 4to-size thin, white wove paper. A seated Cupid with drapery beside a classical stone fountain. His bow and arrow lie on the ground near his feet and a peacock sits on the rim of the stone fountain. A short verse is printed below: 'As true as Cupid here you see / Believe my love's sincere for thee; / No greater pleasure can be mine, / Than be your chosen Valentine'. The impression is weak. The interior is blank. One of eight examples from the same series which are mounted together, consecutively in album P.14416-R. The lithographic style of all eight reproduces a loose and fluid pastel drawing. This card is one of six listed as a group in a handwritten MS from second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R. See P.14416-R-L1. The group is bracketed together and priced as 'the six for £1.1/0'. The other cards in the group of six are: P.14416-R-4, P.14416-R-6, P.14416-R-7, P.14416-R-9, P.14416-R-10. The remaining two cards in the larger group of eight are listed separately in the Frampton MS, bracketed together and priced at '2 for 7/0'. See P.14416-R-5 and P.14416-R-11. 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/215153 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring 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: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_8_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 847 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_8_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 604 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_8_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 847 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_8_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels