IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215412 accession number: P.14419-R.f12v DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Monday 29 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A single sheet of white lace-paper which is folded twice. The lace-paper has a hand-drawn inner line-border in blue ink with a scalloped design. At the centre is a circular window with a beige fabric blind mounted with an embossed paper ornament of a bunch of grasses, hand-painted green with additions of silver and gold metallic paper and overlaid with embossed, hand-coloured flowers. A silver-metallic paper bow is affixed at the base of the stalks. The window has a border of pink, silk woven ribbon. A verse is handwritten in blue ink above and below the central window: 'the best of starts to me, Are thy fond eyes so bright: / When Love you plainly see, / Within, to give them light.'. P.14419-R.f34r is a valentine of a similar design with comparable collage elements, a hand-drawn border (in red) and verse written in the same style. 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/215412 TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown