IDENTIFIERS
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id:	215041
accession number:	P.14414-R-50

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 14 February 2017
updated:	Friday 26 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: White lace-paper with central oval window backed with blue wove paper. The central panel and lower portion of the lace-paper are mounted with a very neat collage of cut-paper lithographed birds with nest and eggs nestling on fabric leaves and cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers and leaves with real grasses in the background behind the birds. A title is painted in white gouache onto the blue paper at upper centre: 'Rural / Lovers'. The front paper is adhered to the back paper. An inscription on the lower right corner of the inside right-hand page can be seen through the lace-paper, but is indecipherable. This is almost certainly a Henry Dobbs card, probably as Dobbs, Kidd & Co., (circa 1851-circa 1870). The location of the collage and pasting together of the front and back papers means that a maker's stamp is not visible. An example of this card design is reproduced in Ruth Webb Lee, _A History of Valentines_ (B.T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1953), plate 138, p. 168, where the maker is identifed as Dobbs, Kidd & Co.
title:	Valentine card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215041





TECHNIQUES
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hand colouring
TECHNIQUES
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lithography
TECHNIQUES
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collage

CATEGORIES
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category: print
category: album

DATING
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creation date:	1851 - 1870
creation date earliest:	1851
creation date latest:	1870
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Dobbs, Henry


IMAGES

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surrogate: original
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