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A Scrap from Cupid's Library: P.14414-R-7

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Scrap from Cupid's Library
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

White lace-paper 'front' (border with design of classical urns) mounted onto a slightly larger piece of pink wove paper. A central panel with 'fretwork' corners and lower border is mounted with a collage of cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers and leaves with stencilled additions. Some of the flowers and leaves lift up to reveal a hand-written message in black ink (by the sender): 'Thee and only thee can I love'. A hand-written title in blue ink (created by Henry Dobbs) at upper centre: 'A Scrap from Cupid's Library'. Affixed below are a silver paper dove and novelty, lithographed music book with printed direction and verse as part of the music: 'with Tenderness / but sprightly / Oh! / I should like to marry, / if that I could find any little / partner suited to my mind'. 'DOBBS' stamped at lower centre.

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
Circa 1838 - Circa 1850

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14414-R-7
Primary reference Number: 214998
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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