IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215418 accession number: P.14419-R.f35r DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Thursday 8 June 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 red ink with a scalloped design. At the centre is a hand-painted scene of a peasant couple beside a fence, the female figure seated and playing a lute. Below is a collage of embossed cut-paper green painted leaves with silver and gold metallic paper additions and embossed, hand-coloured flowers. A verse is handwritten in blue ink above and below the central image: 'As gentle swains in time of yore, Their loved ones hearts were wont to woo: E'en so would I, thy love implore / E'en so would I thy pity sue.'. An embossed silver paper ornament of a winged putto with a garland of flowers surrounded by a glory is affixed at upper centre. P.14419-R.f12v is a valentine of a similar design with comparable collage elements, a hand-drawn border (in blue) 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/215418 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown