IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215194 accession number: P.14416-R-49 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: An acrostic valentine. A lithograph with hand colouring on 8vo-size thin, white wove paper. A lithographed border of stylised leaves and flowers surrounds a hand-coloured scene in a garden of a lady wearing a pink dress with the boy, Hymen and a flaming torch to the right. The words 'FAITH' and 'TRUTH' are drawn as double-edged, stylised letters around the same theme as the border. 'No 3' is lithographed at the lower right of the image, indicating that this design is one of a series. Two verses in the form of an acrostic are printed in a sloping script at lower centre . The first letters of each line of the first verse spell out the word 'FAITH' and the first letters of each line of the second verse spell out the words, 'TRUTH': 'F-air as the Sun at early rise / A -nd beauteous as the summer skies, / I -prize the joys that Hymen brings, / T-o me more wealth than ere hath Kings / H-ear me for Life & Love hath wings: ...'. The interior is blank. One of a series of similar designs in the same style which are mounted on consecutive leaves of album P.14416-R. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf below: '2/6 [2 shillings sixpence]'. This pricing was probably transcribed from the handwritten MS by second-hand bookseller, R.S. Frampton found on the back fly-leaf of album P.14416-R (See P.14416-R-L1), where P.14416-R-49 is listed and priced at 2/6. 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/215194 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_49_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 871 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_49_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 588 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_49_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 871 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_49_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 294 pixels width: 250 pixels