IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206604 accession number: P.14348-R-16 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2015 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Design for a valentine on a small sheet of white wove paper with a lithograph of a young man reclining on a grassy bank by Edward Gilks (signed at lower right: "E. GILKS lith.") cut out and affixed at upper centre. The lithograph has some hand colouring. A verse in faded ink is written below: "The lively sparks of those two eyes / my wounded heart hath set on fire / And since I can no way devise / To stay the sage of my desire ; / With sighs and trembling tears I crave / My dear on me some pity have. ...". An area of paper loss in the upper left corner, partially hidden by the lithograph, undoubtedly relates to a blind stamp of prince of wales feathers within a border of curved scrolls that is seen on the paper for a similar card design by Gilks in the same album. See P.14348-R-15. A partial stamp in red ink of an upper case "D" is printed across the paper at centre right and could be connected to lithographer Thomas Dean, to whom Gilks was apprenticed between 1836-1843. An inscription in ink (same hand as verse) at upper right corner: "127". As Edward Gilks emigrated to Australia in 1852, the lithograph and presumably the whole design, is most likely to have been produced during Gilks's apprenticeship in London to lithographer, Thomas Dean between 1836-1843 and prior to 1852. Album P.14346-R contains six lithographed valentine designs by Gilks, some of them proofs. See P.14346-R-35, P.14346-R-36, P.14346-R-37, P.14346-R-38, P.14346-R-39, P.14346-R-40. 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/206604 TECHNIQUES ---------- collage TECHNIQUES ---------- lithograph 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 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_16_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 875 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14348_R_16_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 585 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14348_R_16_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 875 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14348_R_16_1_201606_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 293 pixels width: 250 pixels