IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215324 accession number: P.14417-R-95 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A small, devotional valentine on an early example of perforated lace-paper. The single narrow sheet of thin white paper is edged with gold leaf. At upper centre, within an irregular-shaped border, is a small, hand-painted image of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, which is comparable with representations of the Saint seen in 15th-century Italian frescoes. The Saint is seen holding a palm in her left hand and leaning against a wheel with her right arm. Her head is surrounded with an aureole. The paper is decorated with five, hand-painted roses. At lower centre is a hand-painted lozenge edged with red 'flames' and the name: '?S. Catharina' at the centre. This valentine is closely comparable to one which was sold at Christie's in 1993, lot 193, and which shows Saint Rosina. This card is dated c.1800-20. See sale catalogue: _Victorian Valentine Cards_, Christie's, South Kensington, Tuesday 9th February, 1993, lot 193, p.20, with black and white photograph. See also Frank Staff for a reproduction of another early devotional valentine featuring 'Saint Theresia'; Staff, Frank, _The Valentine & Its Origins_, London, 1969, no. 159, p. 127. Mounted on the same album leaf as another devotional valentine, P.14417-R-94 and P.14417-R-93, a valentine which employs an image reminiscent of the style of religious painting of the early Renaissance. See also Frank Staff,_The Valentine & Its Origins_, London, 1969, for reproductions of other earlier devotional valentines: nos 13 and 14, p. 25 (on parchment, mid 18th-century) and no. 159, p. 127 (on vellum, mid 18th-century). 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/215324 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- gouache CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_95_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_14417_R_95_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_14417_R_95_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_14417_R_95_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels