IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214256 accession number: P.14344-R-39 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214256 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- wood engraving TECHNIQUES ---------- collage CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1851 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Dobbs, Henry IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_39_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 674 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14344_R_39_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14344_R_39_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 674 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14344_R_39_1_201612_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 380 pixels width: 250 pixels