IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214602 accession number: P.14410-R-27 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Collage of hand-coloured cut-paper, white silk leaves, pink silk ribbon and silver tinsel and silvered embossed wreath on cream laid paper with gold embossed border and inner 'frame' of lace-paper. Handwritten message at upper centre and within the central wreath: "Affection's / Faithful Offering / To be worn / near the Heart ; True Sympathy / Knows no Exhaustion". The flower collage lifts up to reveal a hand-written inscription (presumably from the sender): "From / your sincere / and / devoted / admirer". DOBBS embossed at lower centre. Watermark: Shield. 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. 31. A graphite number "31" 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/214602 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1845 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1845 creation date latest: 1850 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_27_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 788 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_27_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 650 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_27_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 788 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_27_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels