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Valentine card
Printmaker:
Gilks, Edward
Designer:
attributed to
A lithograph with hand colouring on a narrow strip of white wove paper. A small vignette of a goblet of grapes with a pineapple and peaches below and to the left within an arched lithographed frame. A verse is lithographed below: 'Lady sweet Lady / Listen to my prayer / Full of hope I send it / on the morning air ...'. This is the same design as seen in P.14414-R-115, mounted nearby, although this version includes hand colouring and the addition of the lithographed archway and also a different verse. 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. 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.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1836
-
Circa
1852
Accession number: P.14414-R-117
Primary reference Number: 215108
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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