IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214600 accession number: P.14410-R-25 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching and hand-colouring on embossed paper with blue painted edge. A woman wearing regency dress stands within an etched arched frame with pink curtain above and heart pierced with an arrow. A circular temple in the background to the left. A hand-written verse above and below the central image: "When first we met I gazed and found / I had received a lasting wound / Which only you can cure; ...". DOBBS PATENT embossed at lower centre. Hand-written graphite inscription at upper left: "rare / 1811". Watermark: EDMEADS Co / 1811. The same embossing die is seen on other DOBBS PATENT cards, one as late as circa 1836. See P.14410-R-8. The same embossing die as seen in other DOBBS PATENT cards. See for example P.14410-R-14. A clipping from a sale catalogue is affixed to the album leaf: "748 - Earliest Dated Valentines.- A VERY RARE EXAMPLE, 4to, ... with etched female figure ... / £2 2s ...". The clipping is from a catalogue dated 1924 (No. 35) for the bookseller R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. See P.14529-R. Four of Frampton's catalogues dating from the mid 1920s were found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. 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. 2. A graphite number "2" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue. 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/214600 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1811 - 1811 creation date earliest: 1811 creation date latest: 1811 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Dobbs, Henry IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_25_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14410_R_25_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 656 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_25_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14410_R_25_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 328 pixels width: 250 pixels