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Valentine card: P.14419-R.f4r

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

A white lace-paper valentine front pasted directly onto a leaf of cream wove paper. The central panel of the lace-paper has a heart-shaped window with a hand-coloured edge in red and a pink gauze blind mounted with a collage of cut-paper and hand-coloured violets and with a hand-written motto in black ink: 'I love but thee'. Below, is a collage of cut-paper leaves and hand-coloured flowers arranged in an upward curve and with hand-written words at each end: 'Bliss' and 'Unity'. A lithographed paper scroll affixed at upper centre bears the handwritten motto in blue ink: 'Affection's Offering'. A very faint stamp at lower left: 'Dobbs & Co'.

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 1860 - Circa 1870

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14419-R.f4r
Primary reference Number: 215409
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Monday 29 May 2017 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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