IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215510 accession number: P.14565-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Thursday 29 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A valentine of a single sheet of white wove paper, which has been folded five times for delivery, with tears and small losses along the creases. An etching in sepia with aquatint and hand colouring. An interior scene with formal display of fruit and flowers and a couple embracing, the lady in yellow ballgown holding a valentine in her right hand, the gentleman in black and brown gesturing for her to follow winged Hymen to the church imagined at lower left. Hymen, who holds a flaming torch, prepares to lead the couple there with a flower garland. A verse is printed above and below the central image: 'New February comes again / Spring leads on the genial train / The feather'd Pairs delight the grove / And all is Harmony and Love / Come then my Love lets [sic] haste / To celebrate the happy day / Like them in mutual concert join / And hail the Day of Valentine'. A watermark: C ANSELL / 1838. A name is handwritten in brown ink on the verso: '?Elinor Hearns'. 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/215510 TECHNIQUES ---------- aquatint TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1838 - 1838 creation date earliest: 1838 creation date latest: 1838 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14565_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1015 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14565_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 504 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14565_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1015 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14565_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 252 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14565_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1012 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14565_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 506 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14565_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1012 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14565_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 253 pixels width: 250 pixels