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Valentine card
Publisher: Dobbs, Henry
Collage of cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers and foliage with metallic cut-paper bird and gauze clouds on white laid paper with gilt embossed border and inner lace-paper 'frame'. Hand-written verses in blue ink around the lace-paper 'frame': "If in your heart so truly kind / I could a vacant corner find / Oh! it would be my sweetest care, / To write my name for ever there." A hand-written message in blue ink within the collage: "Will you / be / my Partner?". The collage lifts to reveal a hand-written message in faded black ink (hand of the sender?): "An / answer / will oblige." Watermark: Shield. Embossed stamp on outer border at lower centre: DOBBS. Embossed stamp above lace-paper 'frame' at lower centre: D[OBBS] KIDD & CO. / LONDON. P.14410-R-10 is very similar in style. 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. 28. A graphite number "28" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue. A graphite inscription on the album leaf: "Dobbs Kidd & Co", can be identified as the hand of Catherine Parsons. Parsons, a local Antiquarian and friend of Glaisher, was responsible for assembling and arranging his valentine albums in 1924.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1851
Pen and ink
Hand colouring
Collage
Accession number: P.14410-R-9
Primary reference Number: 214584
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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