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Valentine card
Printmaker: Dobbs, Henry
Embossed, lace-paper of a gothic design, with ivy as tracery, statue of a knight in a niche at the left and Cupids with a shield emblazoned with an arrow-pierced heart. Collage of gauze pink and yellow clouds with cut-paper, hand-coloured garland of flowers - a decorative letter 'O' - around a pair of hand-painted doves and hand-painted 'F' to form the word 'Of' at the beginning of the handwritten verse: '[Of] all the flowers / the Spring has met / And it has met with many / Thou art to me the fairest yet / And loveliest of any'. Collage of cut-paper, hand-coloured flowers at lower centre with silver paper ornament of two cupids carrying an envelope/valentine. The interior of the card is blank. Blind-stamp at the base of the fluted plinth at lower left: 'DOBBS KIDD & CO'.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: P.14342-R-81
Primary reference Number: 206561
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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