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Valentine card
Printmaker: Dobbs, Henry
Loose within album P.14347-R. A single sheet of white wove paper with an embossed border (torn in places). The sheet originally had a back paper, now lost (its removal is indicated along the left edge). A central hand-coloured lithograph shows a top-hatted gentleman handing a letter to Cupid who hovers above a cloud, a pair of doves within. A church and a circular temple are seen in the background. A door cut into the paper around the gentleman opens to reveal a woman in a blue dress standing in the garden seen on the right. The image, on a small rectangle of paper, is pasted onto the verso. A decorative geometric banderole border design with acanthus details ornamented with peacocks, flaming hearts and putti. A printed verse within the border at lower centre: "Oh yes my heart is thine my love. / I may not say thee nay; …". DOBBS embossed at lower centre. On the verso is a hand-written verse (seven stanzas long) in brown ink entitled: "To my dear valentine …" and signed "Henry". The verse was most likely copied from a Valentine Writer. The paper has crease marks which indicate that it has been folded several times to form a small square. P.14346-R-21 uses the same device of a door cut into the paper to reveal an image behind with the image pasted onto the verso of the inside page.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1810
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1820
Accession number: P.14347-R-L8
Primary reference Number: 206579
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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