IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215221 accession number: P.14416-R-76 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-coloured lithograph on 8vo-size white wove paper with an embossed border of lyres and music design. An ornate escutcheon design with a central roundel containing hand-coloured flowers (yellow and red striped tulips, blue morning glory flowers, pink roses etc.). The same flowers spill out of the top of the escutcheon and around the lower edge. A verse is printed in sloping script in an upward curve at lower centre: 'Then press into thy heart this pledge of love. / And know though time may change and years may roll / Each flow'ret gathered in my heart / It consecrates to thine'. The interior is blank. 'G. KERSHAW LONDON' stamped along the lower edge. Another design from the same series by Kershaw is mounted onto the adjacent leaf of album P.14416-R. See P.14416-R-77. This card is listed along with P.14416-R-77 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 two bracketed together and priced as 'the 2 for 6/6'. 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/215221 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: Kershaw, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_76_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 855 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14416_R_76_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 599 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14416_R_76_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 855 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14416_R_76_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 299 pixels width: 250 pixels