IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215531 accession number: P.14586-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 10 July 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A valentine of white lace-paper with a collage of green and pink tissue paper leaves arranged in an oval shape and studded with purple and blue hand-coloured paper forget-me-nots. A silver bird ornament with a small white paper 'letter' in its beak is affixed at the centre. The 'letter' opens to reveal a handwritten message from the sender: 'A kiss!'. A handwritten verse in blue ink is written above and below: 'Fly / ever gentle peaceful Dove, / And leave this Gift with one / I love.'. Although unmarked, the design is comparable with those by Henry Dobbs (as Dobbs Kidd & Co) of the 1850s and 1860s. A sheet of very thin, coated paper has been folded and one side pasted to the verso, the other functioning as the back paper. A price written in graphite on the verso: '4/- [4 shillings]'. The interior is blank. P.14586-R was contained along with seven other valentines inside a brown envelope addressed on the recto to, 'Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, England', a return address given at upper left: 'From / ?L[Z?].M. Franklin / 104 West 39th St[reet] / Baltimore'. Glaisher's friend, the American mathematician, Professor William Woolsey Johnson (1841-1927) lived in Baltimore and Glaisher visited him and his wife on many occasions from the 1880s up to 1916. L.M. or Z.M. Franklin is unknown and may have been an art dealer or second-hand book-seller whom Glaisher met during his trips to Baltimore. Julia Poole has documented Glaisher's friendship with Johnson and his trips to America. See Poole's essay, 'Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, The making of a great collection', in Michael Archer, _Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum_ (2013), p. xvi and n. 25, p. xxvi. See record P.14583-R for further details. 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/215531 TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14586_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 844 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14586_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14586_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 844 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14586_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 303 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14586_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 860 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14586_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 595 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14586_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 860 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14586_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 298 pixels width: 250 pixels