IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215014 accession number: P.14414-R-23 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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). 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/215014 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1822 - 1822 creation date earliest: 1822 creation date latest: 1822 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Dobbs, Henry IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_23_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 803 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_23_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 392 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_23_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 803 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_23_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 196 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_23_2_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 762 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_23_2_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 372 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_23_2_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 762 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_23_2_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 186 pixels width: 250 pixels