IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215332 accession number: P.14417-R-103 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: An ornate, 'raised' valentine of white, embossed paper (landscape orientation), overlaid on paper springs with gilt and white embossed lace-paper with a central window and two small windows to either side. The central window contains a panel of textured white paper with a letter-press verse printed in black ink: 'The / Emblem of Love. / There is a flower which oft / unheeded blows / Amidst the splendours of the / summer's ray, / And though this simple flower / no sweets disclose, / Yet would it tell thee all I wish / to say. / And when we're parted by the / foaming sea, / And thou art heedless what / may be my lot, / I'll send that flower, a mess /enter to thee, / And it shall whisper / thus - Forget me / not!'. The two side windows are overlaid with green linen leaves and scraps of a boy playing a trumpet (left) and a girl with ducklings (right). Pink and purple linen blossoms with wax centres are arranged around the central window at lower centre. The interior is blank. Mounted onto the same album leaf as a very similar valentine, P.14417-R-102. A hand-written inscription on the album leaf at lower right: '2 for 6 /= [6 shillings]'. This either relates to inscriptions found on the versos of the two cards mounted on this leaf prior to mounting (P.14417-R-102 and P.14417-R-103), or is transcribed from a list of valentines bought by Glaisher from a dealer, like that sent to Glaisher by second-hand book dealer, R.S. Frampton (See P.14416-R-L1). The inscription indicates that the two valentines were bought as a pair. 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/215332 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- chromolithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1870 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_103_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 705 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14417_R_103_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 344 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_103_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 705 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14417_R_103_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 172 pixels width: 250 pixels