IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215024 accession number: P.14414-R-33 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Large 4to-size valentine of cream wove paper (mounted into the album as landscape orientation) mounted onto a larger sheet of white wove paper which is roughly cut along the lower edge. The valentine has an embossed outer border (with Cupids at play in each corner) and a hand-coloured edge in pink. There is an inner border of hand-painted pink and blue flowers and leaves with overlaid lithographed detail in gold ink and gold ink also applied to the embossed scrolls at each corner and other embossed elements. At the centre is a puzzle purse (damaged), inside of which is the remains of a 'cobweb' device around the central hidden image of the word, 'LOVE' painted in leaves and flowers. 'LOVE' also painted at lower centre in gold paint. 'DOBBS PATENT' stamped at lower centre. A clipping is mounted onto the album leaf below the valentine: '583 A very rare and Early Georgian example of the Billet-doux variety, full 4to size, of circa 1820, 15s 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. Similar in design to other Dobbs Patent cards, P.14386-R and P.14410-R-8, which include puzzle purses in addition to cobwebs. P.14410-R-12, P.14410-R-14 and P.14414-R-23, are all Dobbs Patent cards that are mounted with clippings from the same catalogue and were presumably bought at the same sale. A graphite inscription on the album leaf below the valentine documents the maker's name: 'Dobbs Patent'. The hand (unknown) is recognisable as that which is seen in other albums throughout the collection, and which reliably documents inscriptions, prices and maker's names. 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/215024 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand-colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1820 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_14414_R_33_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 806 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_33_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 635 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_33_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 806 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_33_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 318 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_33_2_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 784 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_33_2_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 653 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_33_2_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 784 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_33_2_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 327 pixels width: 250 pixels