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Valentine card: P.14414-R-106

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gilks, Edward

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Description

A tinted lithograph in blue, green, red, brown and gold inks with hand colouring on white wove paper. A lithographed roundel in gold ink decorated with stars, at the centre of which is a tinted lithograph of a woman leaning against a stone balustrade in a moonlit garden. There is additional hand colouring of the face and arms of the female figure. A printed verse below: "A boat at midnight sent alone / To drift upon the moonless sea, / A lute whose leading chord is gone, / A wounded bird that hath but one ...". The verse is taken from Irish poet, Thomas Moore's poem, _The Love's of The Angels_ (1822). A lithographed vignette of a lute and olive branch is at upper centre. Signed on the roundel at lower centre: "E. Gilks, del & lith.". The interior is blank. 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.14346-R-37 is another print of the same design in which the red ink is less bright and where there has been an attempt to lithograph in red ink the first letter of the verse. P.14414-R-106 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.

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
Circa 1836 - Circa 1852

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14414-R-106
Primary reference Number: 215097
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 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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