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Valentine card
Designer:
Gilks, Edward
Publisher:
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Design for a valentine. Drawing in pen and black ink with watercolour on a small sheet of white wove paper which is mounted onto a slightly larger sheet of cream wove paper. A shell sail boat containing a pair of lovers is blown along by Cupid who flies behind. A hand-written verse in brown ink below: 'Over a sunlit sea / my Love! / Come sail, come sail with me / my Love! / a pearly shell / will bear us well / and pleasant it will be / my Love! ...'. '12' is written in brown ink at the upper right corner in the same hand as the verse. An embossed stamp of a shield at upper left. An inscription in graphite is written onto the secondary support at lower centre (presumably by the artist): 'M.S. by _E.G._'. The initials 'E.G.' stand for British lithographer, Edward Gilks. This design was produced as a hand-coloured lithograph as seen in P.14414-R-113, which probably represents the finished valentine as the border of the paper has been embossed. P.14414-R-112 is mounted with a group of designs for valentines by Gilks in album P.14414-R. 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 and 1843 or between 1844 and 1850 when he was in partnership with his brother Thomas, a wood-engraver, based at 4 Fenchurch Building, Fenchurch, London. 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
Accession number: P.14414-R-112
Primary reference Number: 215103
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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