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Valentine card: P.14410-R-9

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Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

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.

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: circa AD 1851

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Pen and ink
Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14410-R-9
Primary reference Number: 214584

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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