IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215095 accession number: P.14414-R-104 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/215095 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- graphite 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 maker: attributed to IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_104_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 986 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_104_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 519 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_104_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 986 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_104_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 260 pixels width: 250 pixels