IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214422 accession number: P.14346-R-36 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A tinted lithograph with hand-colouring on thin, white wove paper. A woman leans out of a window with leaded panes above a stone balcony, framed with pink roses. A printed verse inside a medallion of blank paper set within the scene: "I send a message / to my love / Each morning by the lark / And every night the nightingale / Brings answer e'er the dark. ...". Signed at lower left: "E. Gilks, del & lith". The inside pages are blank. From a series. As Gilks emigrated to Australia in 1852, this lithograph is most likely either to have been produced during Gilks's apprenticeship in London to Thomas Dean, between 1836-1843 or prior to 1852. From a series of lithographed valentines and valentine designs by Gilks mounted together in album P.14346-R. Other valentine designs by Gilks are contained in album P.14414-R. 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/214422 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1836 - 1852 creation date earliest: 1836 creation date latest: 1852 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Gilks, Edward IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_36_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14346_R_36_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 656 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14346_R_36_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14346_R_36_1_201702_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 328 pixels width: 250 pixels