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Valentine card: P.14342-R-59

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card
Love's Heraldry

Maker(s)

Dobbs, Henry

Entities

Categories

Description

A small valentine of white lace-paper with the handwritten title at upper centre: 'Love's Heraldry'. A cut-paper and silvered and gilded shield mounted with motifs of love; a circlet of forget-me-nots, heartsease and flaming hearts, ivy. A crest of cut-paper roses at upper centre. A cut-paper and gilded scroll with printed motto below: 'True Sympathy has no exhaustion'. A collage of hand-coloured cut-paper flowers at lower centre. 'DOBBS' blindstamped at lower centre (visible from the verso). The interior of the card is blank.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Embossing
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14342-R-59
Primary reference Number: 206539
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Tuesday 12 February 2019 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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