IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215525 accession number: P.14580-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A valentine contained inside an envelope. The valentine has a gilt, cameo-embossed lace-paper front with a central oval window. The embossed design features a pair of lovers with dog and sheep seated at lower centre and another seated facing away from each other at upper centre. A Baxter-process print at the centre of a young girl wearing a straw bonnet trying a pair of spectacles on a dog. The print is composed of a combination of etching, stippling, aquatint and colour-block printing in red, yellow, blue, green and pink. The print is contained within a frame of embossed white paper foliage which is edged with silver foliage (this is revealed on the opening of the valentine). KERSHAW & SON is stamped along the spine at centre left. Inside, the Baxter-process print and frame are mounted onto the inside right-hand page and affixed below is a paper 'book' with gilt detail and printed in blue ink with the motto: 'A tribute of Love & sincere Affection'. An inscription in graphite is at upper centre: 'O ?A M 18'. The accompanying envelope is of white wove paper with an embossed border design on the recto and an embossed medallion containing Cupid and dove on the opening flap on the verso. A handwritten name and address in black ink on the recto: 'Miss Woolmer / 71 Warwick Square / Pimlico / London'. It is possible that this valentine relates to P.14425-R, which is inscribed: 'To my uncle J.B. Woolmer / Feb. 14th 1859.'. P.14581-R is a similar valentine by Kershaw, featuring a Baxter-process print of a girl with a cat, which is also contained within an envelope addressed to the same recipient. It is thought that both prints are probably from a series of images of children or young girls with pets produced by Baxter licensee, Joseph Mansell. See e-mail correspondence between Rebecca Virag and Roger Smith on behalf of the New Baxter Society, 2017-01-04. 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/215525 TECHNIQUES ---------- Baxter-process print TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kershaw, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14580_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 901 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14580_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 440 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14580_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 901 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14580_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 220 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14580_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 874 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14580_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 427 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14580_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 874 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14580_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 213 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14580_R_3_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1007 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14580_R_3_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 508 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14580_R_3_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1007 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14580_R_3_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 254 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14580_R_4_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 958 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14580_R_4_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 534 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14580_R_4_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 958 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14580_R_4_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 267 pixels width: 250 pixels