Skip to main content

Valentine card: P.14418-R-19

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Kershaw, George

Entities

Categories

Description

White embossed lace-paper with gilt detail and pink slip paper featuring a scene with scrolls and putti who flank a tablet containing Cupid's bow and arrow at lower centre whilst an enthroned Cupid sits inside a scallop shell at upper centre. Cupid is partially obscured by an affixed paper scroll with lithographed detail in gold ink and motto in red ink: 'Emblems of Love to thee I send'. An oval window at the centre contains a rice-paper blind which is lithographed with a heraldic design in gold, black, green and purple inks and mounted with a white, embossed paper ornament of a ewer resting on a garlanded plinth. A chromolithographed scrap of pink rose and blue flowers has been trimmed and affixed at lower centre. 'KERSHAW' is stamped along the spine at lower left. The front paper is adhered to the back.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Chromolithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14418-R-19
Primary reference Number: 215367
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Monday 29 May 2017 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/215367 Accessed: 2024-11-16 02:49:05

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/215367 |title=Valentine card |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-16 02:49:05|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-215367

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...