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Valentine card
Designer:
Gilks, Edward
Publisher:
attributed to
A design for a valentine. Artist's board bearing a blind stamp within a medallion at lower right: 'TURNBULL'S / [coat of arms with two dragons - City of London?] / SUPERFINE / LONDON BOARD'. A drawing in graphite with watercolour additions and stumping at lower right of a draped putto or Cupid holding two flower garlands aloft. The flower garlands are hand-drawn and painted in watercolour and gouache with some use of gold paint. A hand-written verse in brown ink is inscribed between the two garlands: '[?Lines on] / Byron / Alas! the love of woman / It is known / To be a lovely and a / fearful thing ...'. The verse is from canto CXCIX of Byron's poem _Don Juan_ (published 1819). Although unsigned, this design is almost certainly by British lithographer, Edward Gilks. As Gilks emigrated to Australia in 1852, this design is most likely to have been produced either during Gilks's apprenticeship in London to Thomas Dean, between 1836-1843 or between 1844-1850 when he was in partnership with his brother Thomas, a wood-engraver, based at 4 Fenchurch Building, Fenchurch, London. P.14414-R-104 is one of a number of designs for valentines by Gilks which are mounted together as a group in album P.14414-R. Other designs by Gilks are contained in album P.14346-R.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1836
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Circa
1852
Watercolour
Pen and ink
Graphite
Accession number: P.14414-R-104
Primary reference Number: 215095
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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