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Valentine card
Publisher: Dobbs, Henry
White lace-paper in a design of gothic archways with a male figure wearing medieval dress standing on a fluted plinth on the left and a larger archway surmounted by Cupids and a shield with a pierced heart inside it on the right. On a blank panel below this archway is a collage of pink gauze clouds and cut-paper lily of the valley with hand-painted stems and hand-written scroll in red ink: "The Emblem of my best belov'd". The collage lifts up to reveal a hand-written inscription in black ink (presumably written by the sender): "My home is where / thou art". Another collage of cut-paper silver metallic foliage and dark red silk flowers below. DOBBS KIDD & CO embossed on the plinth at lower left. The inside pages are blank.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1851
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Circa
1900
Accession number: P.14411-R-83
Primary reference Number: 214713
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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