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Valentine card
Printmaker:
Gilks, Edward
Designer:
attributed to
A lithograph in black ink on a narrow strip of white laid paper. A small vignette of a goblet of grapes with a pineapple and peaches below and to the left. A verse is lithographed below: 'Grapes of pure and glowing lustre! / May the hand that plucked each cluster, / never shake with age! ...'. The verse is taken from Louisa Stuart Costello's translations of Persian poetry, _The Rose Garden of Persia_ which was published in 1845. The print-maker is almost certainly Edward Gilks as P.14414-R-115 is grouped together with a number of designs for valentines by Gilks in album P.14414-R and is stylistically similar to them. P.14414-R-103 is another design, also presumably by Gilks, which reproduces poetry from the same source. As Gilks emigrated to Australia in 1852, this design is most likely to have been produced prior to this date but in or after 1845, following the publication of Costello's book of Persian poetry.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1845
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Circa
1852
Accession number: P.14414-R-115
Primary reference Number: 215106
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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