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Valentine card: P.14344-R-39

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

Lace-paper in a design of entwined shells, flowers and fronded foliage. The central window is backed with net and affixed to this is a collage of hand-coloured cut-outs of wood-engraved goldfinches, a cut-paper branch, leaves and pink roses, all hand-coloured with a piece of dried moss attached and a cut-paper nest painted in pale blue and brown gouache. A hand-written inscription/diagram from the interior leaf can be seen through the net: "Love's Sun Beams / (written along a series of watercolour/gouache depictions of rays of sun) Fondly I love thee / Longing to meet thee / Always happy in thy presence / To me the fairest flower / My heart is in thy keeping". A gold tinsel shape representing the sun is affixed above. DOBBS, KIDD & CO. blind-embossed on the recto at lower right. The firm of Henry Dobbs traded as Dobbs, Kidd & Co. from 1851 into the 1890s.

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
1851 - Circa 1900

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Wood engraving
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14344-R-39
Primary reference Number: 214256
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 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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