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Valentine card
Printmaker: Gilks, Edward
48mo-size embossed paper (as lace) with glittered surface (probably mica) and window outlined (faintly) in green to show a hand-coloured lithograph by Edward Gilks of a woman leaning against a plinth wearing a dress with a black bodice and yellow skirt. A lithographed signature at lower right: E. Gilk[s]. A printed motto in red ink on a gold-edge scroll affixed at lower centre: "Next time you knock / don't forget the ring". The card is missing parts of its back sheet and is mounted on a larger sheet of white wove paper. Almost identical to an adjacent valentine in the same album (P.14411-R-30) which also incorporates a lithograph by Edward Gilks. Glaisher's collection contains a number of lithographed valentines designs by Edward Gilks, a number of which are mounted 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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Before
1852
Accession number: P.14411-R-32
Primary reference Number: 214662
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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