IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215548 accession number: P.14603-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 20 April 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A boxed valentine. A valentine contained inside a shallow white cardboard box with a lid. White lace-paper with a pink slip paper and pink silk panels and a second layer of lace-paper overlaid on paper springs with a central oval window framed with cream and blue woven lace and white net border bound with metallic thread. At the centre of the window is a collage of white net, linen flowers, imitation grasses with frosting and real quaker grass. The outer edge is studded with beads (pearls) on silver tinsel snowflake ornaments and a gilt scrap of a horn of plenty affixed at lower centre bears the motto, 'I am fondly thine own'. The lid of the box is inscribed in graphite in Glaisher's hand: 'Miss Acton's Valentine'. This inscription relates to a letter found loose within Glaisher's valentine collection which was sent to Glaisher from 'J.C. Acton' in 1925. See, Valentinesarchive1. The letter lists eight valentines with prices that were sent to Glaisher on approval, '1 in a box' priced at 5 shillings. Glaisher seems to have kept at least three of the other valentines from this group, including _Cupid's Dream_, P.14383-R, P.14366-R, a Stevengraph sachet valentine of the train 'Lord Howe', which is almost certainly the valentine listed as 'Railway train' in J.C. Acton's letter, and P.14384-R, which is the jewelled valentine. J.C. Acton was one of the daughters of the Brighton-based dealer, Walter Acton from whom Glaisher procured many of the valentines in his collection. The Actons sent Glaisher valentines on approval and he also visited their shop during trips to Brighton. One of the Misses Acton, presumably J.C. Acton, had her own collection of valentines of which Glaisher was very envious and from which he persuaded her to sell him some: 'I got her even to take one out of her album.'. See Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 892-1985, 14 September, 1924, letter to Miss Catherine Parsons (written on headed notepaper from The Grand Hotel, Brighton). P.14603-R was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 51. This valentine was one of 12 included in the exhibition about J.W.L. Glaisher as collector, _James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ScD, FRS (1848-1928) Mathematician and Collector_, held in the Octagon Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1999, Case 9. The selection repeated that of the 1995 exhibition. 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/215548 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Object of My Affection: Stories of Love from the Fitzwilliam Collection IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14603_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 872 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14603_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 587 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14603_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 872 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14603_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 294 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/628/large_P_14603_R_3_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1201 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/628/mid_P_14603_R_3_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 586 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/628/P_14603_R_3_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 4720 pixels width: 4024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/628/preview_P_14603_R_3_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 293 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/629/large_P_14603_R_2_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 874 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/629/mid_P_14603_R_2_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 427 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/629/P_14603_R_2_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 4644 pixels width: 5440 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/629/preview_P_14603_R_2_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 213 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/630/large_P_14603_R_1_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 856 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/630/mid_P_14603_R_1_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 418 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/630/P_14603_R_1_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 4696 pixels width: 5616 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/630/preview_P_14603_R_1_201711_amt49_mas.jpg height: 209 pixels width: 250 pixels