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Oh! Missee ...: P.14424-R

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Oh! Missee ...

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

White lace-paper; a design of entwining flowers and curtain.
At the centre, an embossed, cut-paper figure of a black African slave, hand-coloured in black and with eyes painted in white gouache. A cut-paper skirt of white paper with watercolour, vertical pink stripes is applied to the figure which stands on a hand-painted area of green.
Verse handwritten in blue ink below the figure as prescribed 'speech': 'Oh! Missee, Me lub you so berry / much, me long to make you happy'.
A partial stamp at lower centre is recognisable as relating to Dobbs, Kidd & Co: 'D[...] & Co'. A watermark is only partially decipherable: 'J WHATMAN / 187[?6]'.
A handwritten inscription on the verso: 'Mrs Hodgson / Valentine's day / 187[6 overwritten]7'. See also P.14376-R which bears graphite inscription in same hand, 'Nellie Hodgson' which is overwritten in a different hand in pen and ink, 'Nellie Hodgson / February 14th 1876'.

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
Production date: circa AD 1876

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Watercolour
Collage
Gouache

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14424-R
Primary reference Number: 215461

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Wednesday 5 May 2021

Associated departments & institutions

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

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