IDENTIFIERS
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id:	215461
accession number:	P.14424-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 14 February 2017
updated:	Wednesday 5 May 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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'.
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/215461





TECHNIQUES
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watercolour
TECHNIQUES
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collage
TECHNIQUES
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gouache

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1876 - 1876
creation date earliest:	1876
creation date latest:	1876
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Dobbs, Henry


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