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Valentine card: P.14344-R-9

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

A large card of lace-paper of a design with gothic arches and tracery with ivy leaves entwined and a statue of a medieval prince on the left. A pale pink slip-paper is inserted behind. A verse, mainly hand-written in blue ink: "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". The first two letters of the verse are illuminated; the letter 'O' is designed from collage elements of cut-paper flowers and foliage and with a watercolour wash inside against which a pair of cut-paper and hand-coloured doves are affixed. The letter 'f' is hand-painted with additional cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers. Net clouds (discoloured) and affixed onto the paper above. "Dobbs, Kidd & Co" blind-stamped onto the base of the fluted column at lower left. A Whatman paper watermark is visible on the inside page. The inside of the card is blank. This card is apparently mounted into the album with its original envelope, P.14344-R-8. A graphite inscription on the album leaf below P.14344-R-9: "Valentine & envelope 1857 / Dobbs, Kidd & Co". The hand has been identified as belonging to Glaisher's friend, local Antiquarian, Catherine Parsons (1890-1956), who arranged and assembled his valentine albums in 1924. Her hand is seen elsewhere throughout album P.14344-R. The firm of Henry Dobbs traded as Dobbs, Kidd & Co. from 1851 into the 1890s.

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

Dating

19th Century
Production date: probably AD 1857

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Watercolour
Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14344-R-9
Primary reference Number: 214226

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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