IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215533 accession number: P.14588-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 10 July 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A valentine front of white lace-paper with a central window backed with a panel of peach silk. The panel is mounted with leaves and flowers of white lace-paper, white cut-paper foliage and lithographed cut-paper birds. Additional leaves and a verse are painted in white gouache: 'Constant / and true / to thee; My Comfort and / my Joy'. A silver paper love-knot ornament affixed at lower centre and a paper 'book' with gilt lithographed detail and hand-painted design of violets on the left page, and hand-written motto in blue ink on the right: 'A / Love / Token'. The front is affixed to a folded sheet of thin, coated paper. A price written in graphite on the verso: '4/6 [4 shillings and six pence]'. The interior is blank. P.14588-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/215533 TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- collage TECHNIQUES ---------- gouache 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_14588_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_14588_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_14588_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_14588_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_14588_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_14588_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_14588_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_14588_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 300 pixels width: 250 pixels