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Valentine card
Publisher: Dobbs, Henry
Collage of hand-coloured cut-paper, white silk leaves, pink silk ribbon and silver tinsel and silvered embossed wreath on cream laid paper with gold embossed border and inner 'frame' of lace-paper. Handwritten message at upper centre and within the central wreath: "Affection's / Faithful Offering / To be worn / near the Heart ; True Sympathy / Knows no Exhaustion". The flower collage lifts up to reveal a hand-written inscription (presumably from the sender): "From / your sincere / and / devoted / admirer". DOBBS embossed at lower centre. Watermark: Shield. 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. 31. A graphite number "31" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1845
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1850
Accession number: P.14410-R-27
Primary reference Number: 214602
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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