IDENTIFIERS
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id:	214256
accession number:	P.14344-R-39

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 14 February 2017
updated:	Friday 26 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Lace-paper in a design of entwined shells, flowers and fronded foliage. The central window is backed with net and affixed to this is a collage of hand-coloured cut-outs of wood-engraved goldfinches, a cut-paper branch, leaves and pink roses, all hand-coloured with a piece of dried moss attached and a cut-paper nest painted in pale blue and brown gouache. A hand-written inscription/diagram from the interior leaf can be seen through the net: "Love's Sun Beams / (written along a series of watercolour/gouache depictions of rays of sun) Fondly I love thee / Longing to meet thee / Always happy in thy presence / To me the fairest flower / My heart is in thy keeping". A gold tinsel shape representing the sun is affixed above. DOBBS, KIDD & CO. blind-embossed on the recto at lower right. The firm of Henry Dobbs traded as Dobbs, Kidd & Co. from 1851 into the 1890s.
title:	Valentine card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214256





TECHNIQUES
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hand colouring
TECHNIQUES
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wood engraving
TECHNIQUES
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collage

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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creation date:	1851 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1851
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Dobbs, Henry


IMAGES

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format: jpeg
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width: 674 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
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height: 760 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_39_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg
height: 1024 pixels
width: 674 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
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height: 380 pixels
width: 250 pixels