IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215462 accession number: P.14425-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Valentine in three layers: A top layer of cameo-embossed white and silver lace-paper with a design of medieval lovers and classical columns with urns and foliage which is mounted with paper springs at upper left and right onto a second layer of white lace-paper. The third layer is a back paper of thin, pink laid paper. The top layer has a central oval window which contains a panel of white silk mounted with a cut-paper, hand-coloured bird with a real feather tail. A collaged garland of hand-coloured cut-paper leaves and flowers is affixed around the central silk panel. On the inside right-hand page is a handwritten verse and signed and dated message in black ink: ' "Beautiful birds! we see you around / When the bird's on the branch the snow's on the ground / ye come when the richest of roses flush out, / And ye come when the yellow leaf eddies about" / Beautiful emblems of friendship are ye, / Which yields a sweet solace as passing joy / flee. / To my uncle J.B. Woolmer / Feb. 14th 1859.'. It is possible that this valentine relates to two addressed to: 'Miss Woolmer / 71 Warwick Square / Pimlico / London'. See P.14580-R and P.14581-R. 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/215462 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1859 - 1859 creation date earliest: 1859 creation date latest: 1859 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14425_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 855 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14425_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 599 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14425_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 855 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14425_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 299 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 994 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 485 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 994 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 243 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14425_R_3_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 872 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14425_R_3_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 587 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14425_R_3_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 872 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14425_R_3_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 294 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/781/large_P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 994 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/781/mid_P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 485 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/781/P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 4350 pixels width: 4481 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/781/preview_P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 243 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/781/P_14425_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.ptif height: 4350 pixels width: 4481 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/788/large_P_14425_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1226 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/788/mid_P_14425_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 599 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/788/P_14425_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 3639 pixels width: 3039 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/788/preview_P_14425_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 299 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/793/large_P_14425_R_3_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1203 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/793/mid_P_14425_R_3_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 587 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/793/P_14425_R_3_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 3646 pixels width: 3103 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/793/preview_P_14425_R_3_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 294 pixels width: 250 pixels