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Valentine card: P.14410-R-10

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Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

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Description

Collage (to appear as taxidermy beneath a glass dome) of cut-paper and hand-coloured bird and metallic cut-paper birds with cut-paper foliage, real grasses and applied textile behind a gelatine window on white laid paper with gilt embossed border and inner lace-paper 'frame'. Hand-written verses in blue ink around the lace-paper 'frame': "If Truth, twin Sister unto Love / In birds themselves her force can prove, / How oft may teach the feather'd nest / Example to the human breast, / And ever constant Love birds be / The Semblance true of you & me." Embossed stamp on outer border at lower centre: DOBBS. Embossed stamp above lace-paper 'frame' at lower centre: DOBBS KIDD & CO. / LONDON. Watermark: J WHATMAN / 18(?4)6. P.14410-R-9 is very similar in style. This card was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 29. A graphite number "29" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue.

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
Production date: circa AD 1851

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Pen and ink
Hand colouring
Collage

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Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14410-R-10
Primary reference Number: 214585

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Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 27 March 2018

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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