IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215532 accession number: P.14587-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 silver and gilt embossed paper and hand-coloured cut-paper flowers. A shaped panel of silver embossed paper at the centre has lithographic colour printing in pink, blue and green over embossed flowers and leaves. A small lozenge of paper affixed below has lithographed motto in red ink: 'I don't / mean to be / refused'. MOSSMAN is stamped at lower centre. 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.14587-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/215532 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Mossman, David IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14587_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 841 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14587_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 609 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14587_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 841 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14587_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14587_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 854 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14587_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 600 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14587_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 854 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14587_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 300 pixels width: 250 pixels