1592991151000 1487090795000 Standard Record object-214219 1753812196331 1711456535000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-214219 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214219 340b85c5-8c82-3df1-ad12-02e27baafa2d 5 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print reference term-104347 adlib-term-104347 6f889102-d744-3f3f-9cd4-9df0dbce5586 album Paintings, Drawings and Prints Lace-paper (same lace-paper design as P.14344-R-1) with a central, oval-shaped panel which is hand-decorated with a collage of dried grasses, cut-paper leaves and a chromolithographed scrap of fruit and flowers. A printed and hand-coloured bird cut-out is affixed at the right. The flower cut-out lifts up to reveal a handwritten inscription in blue ink: "Will you to me / your heart resign? / and in return / I'll give you mine." A cut-out, wood-engraved scroll printed in gold metallic ink at lower centre bears the handwritten verse: "Beauty, youth & endless Spring / dwell upon thy rosy wing". Handwritten verses like these were probably sourced from a Valentine Writer, a book with verses inside it suitable for a Valentine's Day message to a loved one. Valentine Writers were produced for men and women or compiled as suitable for both sexes during the late 18th-century, before pre-made cards with printed verses were commonplace, although they were still being published during the first half of the 19th century. The inside of the card is blank. DOBBS, KIDD & CO blind-embossed at lower centre (visible from the verso). The backing paper bears a visible Whatman watermark. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf below P.14344-R-1 and adjacent to P.14344-R-2 states: "Price 1 /= each c.1850". N.B. /= denotes shillings. The hand has been identified as belonging to Glaisher's friend, local Antiquarian, Catherine Parsons (1890-1956), who arranged and assembled his valentine albums in 1924. Her hand is seen elsewhere throughout album P.14344-R. The firm of Henry Dobbs was known as Dobbs, Kidd & Co. between around 1851 into the 1890s. P.14344-R-2 1 accession number P.14344-R-2 214219 priref 214219 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214219 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214219 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928 bequeathed 1851 1851 1851 1851 1900 1 1900 1900 circa 1900 publisher reference agent-177829 adlib-agent-177829 14883064-2a9b-39f6-84c1-d94e5b05bcdb Dobbs, Henry reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference media-203061 adlib-media-203061 860f3fbe-f9f9-3040-81f3-3cd74522dd6c jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_2_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 672 1742598591268 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14344_R_2_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 762 width pixels 500 1742598591268 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_2_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1024 width pixels 672 1742598591268 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14344_R_2_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 381 width pixels 250 1742598591268 1 image 0 media image reference term-104408 adlib-term-104408 8f88fdfb-ee46-3100-aefc-6466cf9ce5d9 Valentine card reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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