Skip to main content

Cupid tying the Knot: P.14410-R-30

An image of Valentine card
View image details

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Cupid tying the Knot
Valentine card

Maker(s)

Publisher: Dobbs, Henry

Entities

Categories

Description

4to-size card of cream laid paper with gilded embossed border and inner lace-paper border (same as seen in P.14410-R-9 and P.14410-R-10). Unusual landscape orientation (position of maker's stamps show that the paper has been turned upside down). A collage of cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers and fruit with silvered leaves and cut-paper Cupid/Hymen enacting a mock marriage ceremony at an altar with flaming hearts. Embossed: DOBBS (outer border) and DOBBS KIDD & CO / LONDON (inner border). Title handwritten at upper centre in blue ink: "Cupid tying the Knot". Verse hand-written in blue ink at upper left and right: "Unity of hearts bringeth forth bliss, / And sheds a halo of celestial peace." Watermark: J WHATMAN/ [?1846]. The inside pages are blank. 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. 30. A graphite number "30" is written onto the album leaf in the lower left-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

Hand colouring
Collage

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14410-R-30
Primary reference Number: 214605

Audit data

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

Associated departments & institutions

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

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Cupid tying the Knot" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214605 Accessed: 2025-12-16 02:50:34

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214605 |title=Cupid tying the Knot |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-16 02:50:34|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-214605

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14410_R_30_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Cupid tying the Knot"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Cupid tying the Knot</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo