IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215063 accession number: P.14414-R-72 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White wove paper with a lace-paper border. A collage of embossed silver paper bell ornaments and cut-paper ivy leaves arranged at the centre. A lithographed title in blue ink at upper centre: 'Belfry / Whispers of a Wedding'. Lithographed verse in blue ink printed below each silver bell: From upper left to lower right: 'O I must tune my sweetest air; Yes for such a goodly pair; / The Birds will sing their choicest lay; To greet them on life's flowery / way; / When dear Pal shall I begin? Immediately he's placed the / Ring; / Joyful be our peal that day; And for their happiness we'll / pray'. A lithographed and hand-coloured cut-paper robin is affixed at lower centre with 'speech' lithographed in red ink above it: 'Hush! they'll soon be here'. The front paper is adhered to the back paper. Although the paper is unstamped, this valentine is comparable in style to those produced by Henry Dobbs (as Dobbs, Kidd & Co.) during the 1860s. 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/215063 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_72_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 795 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_72_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 644 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_72_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 795 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_72_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 322 pixels width: 250 pixels