IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206561 accession number: P.14342-R-81 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Thursday 14 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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'. 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/206561 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- embossing 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_81_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 684 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14342_R_81_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 749 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14342_R_81_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 684 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14342_R_81_1_201604_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 374 pixels width: 250 pixels