IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215203 accession number: P.14416-R-58 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A lithograph with hand colouring on 8vo-size white wove paper. A hand-coloured lithographed border of stylised leaves, vines and flowers surrounds a central hand-coloured vignette of a courting couple on a country path, Cupid hiding in the bushes at the far left and a church seen in the distance on the right. A verse is printed above and below in sloping script: 'I never seek my Couch at night / Unless for thee a prayer I breathe; / and oft in sleep thy image bright, / Sweet smile and laughing eyes soft light. / around my soul their witcheries wreathe / ... I muse on thee and softly say / When fate shall take our lives away, / Oh! may we meet again in heaven.'. 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 P.14416-R-51, '8 for £1-4-0' probably relates to that found on the 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), where P.14416-R-51 is listed and bracketed with 7 other similar valentines from album P.14416-R, including P.14416-R-58, and which are priced at '8 for £1-4-0'. In addition to P.14416-R-51 and P.14416-R-58 the others listed are: P.14416-R-52, P.14416-R-53, P.14416-R-54, P.14416-R-56, P.14416-R-59 and P.14416-R-60. Four further valentines from this group are also found on the Frampton list, bracketed together and priced at 10 shillings for the four. See P.14416-R-55, P.14416-R-57, P.14416-R-61 and P.14416-R-62. 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/215203 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_58_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 888 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_58_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 577 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_58_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 888 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_58_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 288 pixels width: 250 pixels