IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215351 accession number: P.14418-R-3 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Monday 29 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White embossed lace-paper of a design of roses and leaves. At the centre, an embossed gilt roundel with flower design overlays a roundel of paper which is hand-coloured pink. A collage of hand-coloured and cut-paper flowers and leaves is arranged at lower and upper centre. At lower centre, two stems of cut-paper ivy leaves flank a silver tinsel roundel with bronze tinsel flower centre. At upper centre is a cut-paper swag with lithographed detail and verse in blue ink: 'Ask not why it is, I love thee / Why is Heaven divine / I only know, I cannot tell thee / But my heart is thine'. The front paper is adhered to the back. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf above: '1861'. This is probably a transcription of a date found on the verso of the valentine prior to mounting into the album. The hand is unknown, but is the same as seen above no. 1 in the same album. 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/215351 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1861 - 1861 creation date earliest: 1861 creation date latest: 1861 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown