These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Valentine card
Printmaker: Gilks, Edward
Design for a valentine on a small sheet of white wove paper with a lithograph of a young man reclining on a grassy bank by Edward Gilks (signed at lower right: "E. GILKS lith.") cut out and affixed at upper centre. The lithograph has some hand colouring. A verse in faded ink is written below: "The lively sparks of those two eyes / my wounded heart hath set on fire / And since I can no way devise / To stay the sage of my desire ; / With sighs and trembling tears I crave / My dear on me some pity have. ...". An area of paper loss in the upper left corner, partially hidden by the lithograph, undoubtedly relates to a blind stamp of prince of wales feathers within a border of curved scrolls that is seen on the paper for a similar card design by Gilks in the same album. See P.14348-R-15. A partial stamp in red ink of an upper case "D" is printed across the paper at centre right and could be connected to lithographer Thomas Dean, to whom Gilks was apprenticed between 1836-1843. An inscription in ink (same hand as verse) at upper right corner: "127". 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.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1836
-
1852
Accession number: P.14348-R-16
Primary reference Number: 206604
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Valentine card" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/206604 Accessed: 2024-11-18 16:49:47
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/206604
|title=Valentine card
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-18 16:49:47|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-206604
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_16_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg"
alt="Valentine card"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Valentine card</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
