IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214584 accession number: P.14410-R-9 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/214584 TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1851 - 1851 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1851 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Dobbs, Henry IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_9_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 842 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_9_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 608 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_9_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 842 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_9_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels