IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214825 accession number: P.14412-R-101 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 3 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A comic valentine which employs a visual pun. White lace-paper with a pair of woven textile trousers with white satin waistband and silvered foil studs mounted at the centre. A handwritten motto in blue ink: 'Something / I hope you'll / never wear'. The trousers lift off the paper at the top to reveal the second part: 'Breeches of Promise'. 'DOBBS' is embossed at lower centre. The back paper is missing. P.14418-R-5 is another version of this card found in album P.14418-R, which employs the alternative spelling, 'Breaches of Promise', with the 'a' underlined to emphasise the punning relationship between 'breach' and 'breeches'. The trousers in P.14418-R-5 are made of brown and red tweed with gold foil studs. The valentines collection at the Museum of London contains three examples of this design by Dobbs with the trousers made of various materials, all with the motto spelling, 'Breeches of Promise'. See 34.170/196; 34.170/197 and 34.170/35. 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/214825 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1838 - 1851 creation date earliest: 1838 creation date latest: 1851 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Dobbs, Henry IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_101_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 838 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14412_R_101_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 611 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14412_R_101_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 838 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14412_R_101_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 305 pixels width: 250 pixels