IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206522 accession number: P.14342-R-42 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Wednesday 13 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A quarto valentine of lace-paper with gilded border and lace-paper overlaid around a central panel of white silk with mounted, collaged elements. A circular 'medal' edged with white, silk leaves, printed motto: 'TRUE SYMPATHY KNOWS NO EXHAUSTION' and central, painted 'enamelled' interior of red, gilt and silver paint and cut-paper forget-me-nots hangs on a pink ribbon with circular silvered paper 'pin'. The 'medal' lifts up to reveal a 'Dobbs' handwritten message: 'A token of constant / Love'. Written onto the silk above is a 'Dobbs' handwritten motto in blue ink: 'Affection's / Offering / To be worn / near the Heart'. A collage of cut-paper, hand-coloured and embossed flowers with hand-painted leaves onto the silk has been mounted with unpasted ends to left and right intended for 'secret' messages which either Dobbs or possibly the sender has added in pen and black ink: 'From your / sincere / and / devoted / admirer'. See also no. 80 in this album, another example of the same design with slight differences in colour-way and additional collaged elements. Both examples feature the same mottos at upper centre, around the 'medal' and also beneath it. 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/206522 TECHNIQUES ---------- embossing TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Dobbs, Henry IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_42_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 835 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14342_R_42_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 613 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_42_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 835 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14342_R_42_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 307 pixels width: 250 pixels