IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214585 accession number: P.14410-R-10 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 27 March 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Collage (to appear as taxidermy beneath a glass dome) of cut-paper and hand-coloured bird and metallic cut-paper birds with cut-paper foliage, real grasses and applied textile behind a gelatine window 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 Truth, twin Sister unto Love / In birds themselves her force can prove, / How oft may teach the feather'd nest / Example to the human breast, / And ever constant Love birds be / The Semblance true of you & me." Embossed stamp on outer border at lower centre: DOBBS. Embossed stamp above lace-paper 'frame' at lower centre: DOBBS KIDD & CO. / LONDON. Watermark: J WHATMAN / 18(?4)6. P.14410-R-9 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. 29. A graphite number "29" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue. 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/214585 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 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Object of My Affection: Stories of Love from the Fitzwilliam Collection IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_10_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_10_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 656 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_10_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_10_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 328 pixels width: 250 pixels