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Valentine card
Publisher: Dobbs, Henry
Large 4to-size cream wove paper (landscape orientation) with an embossed outer border and hand-coloured pink edge. An inner border of hand-painted pink and blue flowers and leaves with overlaid lithographed detail in gold ink and gold ink also applied to the embossed scrolls at each corner. An oval-shaped panel at the centre contains a large, hand-painted design of red and white roses with violets into which is cut a 'cobweb' device with a thread to lift and reveal a hand-painted scene of Cupid with his bow. A verse is handwritten in black ink around the central scene: 'Accept dear girl these trifling flowers / And let your heart incline / To listen to my faithful love, / And be for ever mine.'. 'LOVE' is lithographed in gold ink at lower centre opposite a hand-painted design of a dove with letter, flaming torches and gold ring at upper centre. 'DOBBS PATENT' is stamped at centre left (this would usually be located at lower centre, but the paper has been turned around). The interior is blank. Watermark: 'J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1822'. Similar in design to other Dobbs Patent cards, P.14386-R and P.14410-R-8, which include puzzle purses in addition to cobwebs, and P.14392-R and P.14410-R-12, which have the same embossed border design and P.14410-R-12 also uses gold ink. A clipping is mounted onto the album leaf below (and inside) the valentine: '580 Early Moveable Valentines - Another fine example (much earlier) ... 25s 6d ...'. The clipping is from catalogue No. 34, dated 1923-4 of the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. See P.144527-R. P.14528-R is a duplicate catalogue with all pages intact which is useful for cross-referencing. Four of Frampton's catalogues were found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. A hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf above P.14414-R-23: 'Cat 34 / 25/6 No. 2', confirms this. Other cards by Henry Dobbs in the Glaisher albums seem to have been bought in the same sale. See P.14410-R-12 (was lot 581), P.14410-R-14 (was lot 577) and P.14414-R-64 (was lot 578).
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1822
Accession number: P.14414-R-23
Primary reference Number: 215014
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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