IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206560 accession number: P.14342-R-80 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Thursday 14 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A quarto valentine with lace-paper border with green and gilt embossed central 'frame' containing 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 pale 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'. See also no. 42 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. 'DOBBS [& KIDD] & CO' stamped at lower centre of the 'frame' and a blindstamp, 'DOBBS' at lower centre. The interior is blank. 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/206560 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_80_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 863 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14342_R_80_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 593 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_80_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 863 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14342_R_80_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 297 pixels width: 250 pixels