IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215549 accession number: P.14604-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A boxed valentine in an original Raphael Tuck box with lid. Heavy cream wove paper with an embossed and chromolithographed design of pink roses and forget-me-nots in a basket at lower centre and a scene of a bridal couple in 18th-century costume in a landscape above, speckled with gold ink. A blue ribbon with a textile pink rose on a stem and a gold 'wedding ring', is tied through the card at centre left. 'With love' is embossed in blue ink at lower right with a verse printed in gold ink below: 'Fair days / and happy hours / Be yours through / all the Seasons'. Inside, a double sheet of white wove paper is tied into the card with the blue ribbon. On the left-hand inside page; a lithographed image of two birds building a nest. On the right-hand inside page; a lithographed verse: 'TO MY / VALENTINE / Lady of my delight, / Although I am half afraid / To whisper a hope that it with us still, / I sing you my serenade: / "Joy is again on the wing, / And this happy heart of mine / Takes courage anew with sweet thoughts of you / On the morn of St. Valentine!" '. The verso is speckled with gold ink. Printed on the verso, the trademark symbol of artist's easel and palette and below: 'Raphel Tuck & Sons, Ltd. / Publishers to the King and Queen / Copyright London. / The GOLDEN AGE Series PRODUCED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM'. The 'by Royal Appointment' notice dates the card to after 1893. The valentine is contained inside a shallow white cardboard box with lid, the lower half of which bears a Raphael Tuck printed label on the verso: 'MY VALENTINE / DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY / RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD / NO. 16'. The lid of the box is affixed with a white address label with printed address: 'Dr. J.W.L. GLAISHER, / TRINITY COLLEGE, / CAMBRIDGE', with postmarked stamp of 'three half pence' bearing head of George V. P.14609-R is another boxed Raphel Tuck valentine from the same series. 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/215549 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1920 - 1920 creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1920 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Tuck, Raphael IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 938 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14604_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 546 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 938 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14604_R_1_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 273 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_2_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 939 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14604_R_2_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 545 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_2_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 939 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14604_R_2_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 273 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_3_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 915 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14604_R_3_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 447 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_3_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 915 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14604_R_3_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 223 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_4_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 772 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14604_R_4_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 377 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_4_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 772 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14604_R_4_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_5_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 927 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14604_R_5_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 453 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_5_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 927 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14604_R_5_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 226 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_6_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 913 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14604_R_6_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 561 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14604_R_6_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 913 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14604_R_6_201610_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 280 pixels width: 250 pixels