IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215520 accession number: P.14575-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: An embossed white envelope addressed in brown ink to: 'Miss Eliza / Buchan / Knightsbridge'. Inside are two small, hand-drawn and painted cards. A long strip of white card, folded in half, is decorated on one side with a hand-drawn border in blue and red ink and with hand-drawn and painted salutation (as leafy flower garlands): 'My Dear Eliza'. On the verso is a handwritten date in brown ink: '12th of August 1844'. A small oval-shaped white card with a border of punched 'lace' is inscribed in green ink: 'Eliza Harriet Buchan / 1844' and at the centre with two hand-drawn flaming hearts pierced with arrows and flanked by a forget-me-not to the left and pink rose to the right. An additional inscription in brown ink to either side of the date: 'Forget me not'. The verso is blank. 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/215520 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown