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Valentine card: P.14342-R-68

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card
Fire-Side Companions

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

White, embossed lace-paper of basket-weave flower garland design. See also no. 49 in this album, which employs the same central garland pattern, with additional hand-colouring of the embossed flower sections. The title is written in Dobbs's house-style at upper centre: 'Fire-Side / Companions'. A pair of novelty fire screens composed of silvered and glazed chromolithographs of flowers bordered with silvered paper and with gold tinsel 'handles' applied. The screens lift up to reveal Dobbs's handwritten motto, from left to right: 'U', 'and I'. 'DOBBS' and 'KIDD' blind-stamped onto the embossed bows at upper left and lower left. The interior is blank. Another example of this valentine design by Dobbs with slight variation in the decoration on the fire screens is in the collection of the Museum of London: 34.170/532.

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

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Colour printing
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14342-R-68
Primary reference Number: 206548
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Tuesday 12 February 2019 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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