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Valentine card
Printmaker: Gilks, Edward
A tinted lithograph with hand-colouring on thin, white wove paper. A woman leans out of a window with leaded panes above a stone balcony, framed with pink roses. A printed verse inside a medallion of blank paper set within the scene: "I send a message / to my love / Each morning by the lark / And every night the nightingale / Brings answer e'er the dark. ...". Signed at lower left: "E. Gilks, del & lith". The inside pages are blank. From a series. As Gilks emigrated to Australia in 1852, this lithograph is most likely either to have been produced during Gilks's apprenticeship in London to Thomas Dean, between 1836-1843 or prior to 1852. From a series of lithographed valentines and valentine designs by Gilks mounted together in album P.14346-R. Other valentine designs by Gilks are contained in album P.14414-R.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1836
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1852
Accession number: P.14346-R-36
Primary reference Number: 214422
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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