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Valentine card: P.14342-R-80

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card
True Sympathy Knows no Exhaustion

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

A quarto valentine with lace-paper border with green and gilt embossed central 'frame' containing collaged elements. A circular 'medal' edged with white, silk leaves, printed motto: 'TRUE SYMPATHY KNOWS NO EXHAUSTION' and central, painted 'enamelled' interior of red, gilt and silver paint and cut-paper forget-me-nots hangs on a pale pink ribbon with circular silvered paper 'pin'. The 'medal' lifts up to reveal a 'Dobbs' handwritten message: 'A token of constant / Love'. Written onto the silk above is a 'Dobbs' handwritten motto in blue ink: 'Affection's / Offering / To be worn / near the Heart'. See also no. 42 in this album, another example of the same design with slight differences in colour-way and additional collaged elements. Both examples feature the same mottos at upper centre, around the 'medal' and also beneath it. 'DOBBS [& KIDD] & CO' stamped at lower centre of the 'frame' and a blindstamp, 'DOBBS' at lower centre. The interior is blank.

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

Embossing
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14342-R-80
Primary reference Number: 206560
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Thursday 14 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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