IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215427 accession number: P.14420-R.f23r DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Wednesday 27 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A valentine front of white lace-paper, which is set off by a pale pink slip paper behind. Mounted at the centre is a smaller panel of embossed lace-paper with a design of scallop shells, flower garlands and Cupid at upper centre. The panel and the Cupid are lightly hand coloured. An oval panel at the centre is handpainted with a design of flower stems and leaves with additional cut-paper handcoloured flower heads. A cut-paper scroll with gold painted edge bears a handwritten message in blue ink: 'An Important question'. The outer edge of the panel has been cut around to create a flap which lifts up with a strip of blue ribbon to reveal a handwritten verse in blue ink: 'Dearest [surrounded with a gold tinsel garland and hand-drawn radiating gold lines] / I have a word to say to you / O hear me out what'eer you do , / Will you be my wedded Wife, / And shed a halo o'er my life / Do not refuse I now intreat [sic] / Be mine, my own true love / My sweet, my chosen one'. The back paper is missing. An initial 'E' is written in graphite on the album leaf below the valentine. The names 'Edith' and 'Netty' are written into the album. These names would probably account for the single initials of 'E' or 'N' written on the album leaves adjacent to a number of the valentines in the album. The initials presumably indicate either from whom they were received or to whom they were sent. 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/215427 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14420_R_f23r_1_201706_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 896 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14420_R_f23r_1_201706_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 571 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14420_R_f23r_1_201706_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 896 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14420_R_f23r_1_201706_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 286 pixels width: 250 pixels