Skip to main content

Valentine card: P.14411-R-83

An image of Valentine card
View image details

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

Entities

Categories

Description

White lace-paper in a design of gothic archways with a male figure wearing medieval dress standing on a fluted plinth on the left and a larger archway surmounted by Cupids and a shield with a pierced heart inside it on the right. On a blank panel below this archway is a collage of pink gauze clouds and cut-paper lily of the valley with hand-painted stems and hand-written scroll in red ink: "The Emblem of my best belov'd". The collage lifts up to reveal a hand-written inscription in black ink (presumably written by the sender): "My home is where / thou art". Another collage of cut-paper silver metallic foliage and dark red silk flowers below. DOBBS KIDD & CO embossed on the plinth at lower left. The inside pages are blank.

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
1851 - Circa 1900

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14411-R-83
Primary reference Number: 214713

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

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/214713 Accessed: 2025-12-12 19:36:28

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/214713 |title=Valentine card |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-12 19:36:28|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-214713

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14411_R_83_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Valentine card"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Valentine card</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo