IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206529 accession number: P.14342-R-49 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Thursday 7 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A quarto valentine of cream, lace-paper of scalloped design with swags and embossed foliage motifs at the four corners. A garlanded 'frame' at the centre is created from embossed and hand-coloured sections of different flower varieties (fuschia, convolvulus, roses, wild pansy/viola ('heartsease') etc.) and a basketweave design within the paper to suggest ribbons wound around the flower garland, the edges of which have been expertly coloured in gold paint. At the centre, applied ivory satin ribbon has been criss-crossed within the oval aperture, holding in place a large bouquet of hand-coloured, cut-paper flowers. A motto is written in gold onto the ribbon at lower centre: 'To One I admire'. Two blindstamps on the lace-paper: 'DOBBS' at lower left '& KIDD' at lower right. The extensive handwritten dedication from the sender inside the valentine is partially visible through the ribbon. This valentine is one of three inside album P.14342-R which are dedicated to a woman called ‘Diana’, all apparently by the same suitor, who also refers to her as 'Ladye Fayre' in his effusive verse dedications (see also nos 52 and 76 and album record, P.14342-R). Inside is written in black ink: ‘My Dear Diana, / Once again / you know who / Whilst St. Valentine doth reign / Writes to you / to say that still I[he] do[es] remain / thy Lover true. / W?FB 14 Feby / Lo hear me swear / Ladye Fayre / ... Proclaim him thy _knight_ for St Valentine's _day_’. 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/206529 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Dobbs, Henry 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_14342_R_49_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 853 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14342_R_49_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 600 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_49_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 853 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14342_R_49_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 300 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_49_2_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 848 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14342_R_49_2_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 604 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_49_2_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 848 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14342_R_49_2_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/489/large_P_14342_R_49_2_201604_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 1227 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/489/mid_P_14342_R_49_2_201604_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 599 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/489/P_14342_R_49_2_201604_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 3452 pixels width: 2880 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/489/preview_P_14342_R_49_2_201604_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 300 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/490/large_P_14342_R_49_1_201604_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 1286 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/490/mid_P_14342_R_49_1_201604_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 628 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/490/P_14342_R_49_1_201604_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 3500 pixels width: 2786 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/490/preview_P_14342_R_49_1_201604_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 314 pixels width: 250 pixels