IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214557 accession number: P.14392-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-painted design of pink and blue flowers with detail in gold leaf, flaming hearts and a peacock at lower centre on 8vo-sized cream embossed paper with hand-painted edge in blue. An embossed neo-classical scene at the centre featuring Athena, Venus and Cupid, an embossed scroll painted in gold leaf below: BEAUTY GOVERNED BY PRUDENCE CROWNED BY VIRTUOUS LOVE. Embossed stamp at lower centre: DOBBS PATENT. A verse written by the sender on the right-hand inside page. The card has been folded several times and a hand-written address on the verso: "For / Esther Miles / No 35 Bucklersbury / City". Stamp in red ink: "T.P. / WOOD St". Postmark in red ink: "10. NOON.10 / FE.21 / 1829". Watermark: EDMEADS & CO / 1809. The discrepancy between watermark (1809) and postmark (1829) suggests either that Dobbs made large numbers of embossed blanks to be illuminated at a later date or that the firm laid in large stocks of paper which were embossed at a later date. Henry Dobbs was trading under the name Dobbs Patent from circa 1820-1838, so it seems more likely that paper made during the first decade of the nineteenth century was embossed at a later date. P.14385-R, P.14386-R, P.14410-R-8 and P.14410-R-12 have the same embossed design around the outer border. This card was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 27. P.14428-R is another valentine of a similar style by Henry Dobbs which is addressed to the same recipient (although apparently to 'Hester' Miles) and postmarked 1830. 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/214557 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1809 - 1829 creation date earliest: 1809 creation date latest: 1829 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Dobbs, Henry IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14392_R_1_201704_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 906 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14392_R_1_201704_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 565 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14392_R_1_201704_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 906 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14392_R_1_201704_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 283 pixels width: 250 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