IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214589 accession number: P.14410-R-14 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hand-colouring on white wove paper (without backing) with embossed border, the entire central area painted light green and a hand-painted edge of green and blue. A passion flower and pink rose with leaves hand-painted at the centre and cut into a 'cobweb' device. A silk thread lifts to reveal an etched and hand-coloured Cupid. An etched and cut-out moth affixed at upper left and a cut-out letterpress poem (probably by Beazley) affixed at lower left: "Fair Rosalind laugh'd in her lonely bower, ...". Hand-written verse above and below the central image: "See gentle Cupid on the wings ...". Other verse written in a different hand at upper and lower right (presumably written by the sender?). Embossed stamp at lower centre: DOBBS PATENT. The same embossing die is seen on other DOBBS PATENT cards ranging in date from circa 1811 to circa 1836. See P.14410-R-25, for example. A clipping from a sale catalogue is affixed to the album leaf: "577 - An Early Example of the "Moveable" Valentine, 4to size, on tinted paper, SCARCE, c.1830 / 12s 6d ...". The clipping is from catalogue No. 34, dated 1923-4 of the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. See P.144527-R. P.14528-R is a duplicate catalogue with all pages intact which is useful for cross-referencing. Four of Frampton's catalogues were found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. Other cards by Henry Dobbs in the Glaisher albums seem to have been bought in the same sale. See P.14410-R-12 (was lot 581), P.14414-R-23 (was lot 580) and P.14414-R-64 (was lot 578). 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. 20. A graphite number "20" 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/214589 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- letterpress TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1830 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_14_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 770 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_14_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 665 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_14_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 770 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_14_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 332 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_14_2_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 801 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_14_2_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 639 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_14_2_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 801 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_14_2_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 320 pixels width: 250 pixels