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A Wreath to Crown my Charming Fair Valentine card
Publisher: Dobbs, Henry
A valentine of white lace-paper with title written in black ink: 'A / Wreath to Crown' and 'My / Charming / Fair' written below in red ink inside a wreath of small, embossed, cut-paper, hand-coloured flowers and leaves. A collage of cut-paper and hand-coloured flowers and leaves is mounted at lower centre. DOBBS & CO is stamped at lower left. The interior is blank. A watermark on the backpaper: [W]HATMAN / [1]860. A price written in graphite on the recto at lower right and on the verso: '2/- [2 shillings]'. Adhesive residue on the verso indicates that this valentine was previously mounted inside an album or similar. P.14589-R was contained along with seven other valentines inside a brown envelope addressed on the recto to, 'Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, England', a return address given at upper left: 'From / ?L[Z?].M. Franklin / 104 West 39th St[reet] / Baltimore'. Glaisher's friend, the American mathematician, Professor William Woolsey Johnson (1841-1927) lived in Baltimore and Glaisher visited him and his wife on many occasions from the 1880s up to 1916. L.M. or Z.M. Franklin is unknown and may have been an art dealer or second-hand book-seller whom Glaisher met during his trips to Baltimore. Julia Poole has documented Glaisher's friendship with Johnson and his trips to America. See Poole's essay, 'Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, The making of a great collection', in Michael Archer, _Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum_ (2013), p. xvi and n. 25, p. xxvi. See record P.14583-R for further details.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1860
Pen and ink
Hand colouring
Collage
Accession number: P.14589-R
Primary reference Number: 215534
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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