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Valentine card: P.14348-R-15

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gilks, Edward

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Description

Design for a valentine on a small sheet of white wove paper with a small lithograph of a young woman wearing a ball gown/wedding gown by Edward Gilks (signed at lower right: "E. GILKS lith.") cut out and affixed at upper centre. A verse in faded ink is written below: "To me, through every season, dearest, / In every scene - by day, by night - / Thou present to my mind appeared / A quenchless star for ever bright! ...". A blind stamp of prince of wales feathers within a border of curved scrolls at upper left corner of paper. An inscription in graphite at upper right corner: "28 x". As Edward Gilks emigrated to Australia in 1852, the lithograph and presumably the whole design, is most likely to have been produced during Gilks's apprenticeship in London to lithographer, Thomas Dean between 1836-1843 and prior to 1852. Album P.14346-R contains six lithographed valentine designs by Gilks, some of them proofs. See P.14346-R-35, P.14346-R-36, P.14346-R-37, P.14346-R-38, P.14346-R-39, P.14346-R-40.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
1836 - 1852

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14348-R-15
Primary reference Number: 206603
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Friday 26 January 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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