IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215094 accession number: P.14414-R-103 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A drawing for a valentine design in graphite and watercolour on white wove paper. Faint, graphite scrolls and border with winged putti and two lozenges at lower centre are partially overpainted with green and pink and grey wash. A pair of embracing lovers sit at the centre of a circular garland of flowers. The uppermost lozenge contains handwritten verse in brown ink: 'They call me madman - if 'tis so / Bind with thy locks that softly flow / The madman, that at last he be / Held in thy chains and slave to thee'. The same verse is written out in black ink on the verso, along with another verse. Both are recorded as being 'From the Persians'. This presumably refers to Louisa Stuart Costello's translations of Persian poetry, _The Rose Garden of Persia_ which was published in 1845 and which contains both poems. Although unsigned, this design is almost certainly by British lithographer, Edward Gilks. 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. P.14414-R-103 is the most unfinished of three designs for lithographed valentines from the same series by Gilks which are mounted across the same double page in album P.14414-R. All three display scrolling borders and two lozenges/medallions at lower centre containing verse. Parts of the designs in the other two cards from the series have been lithographed. See P.14414-R-99 and P.14414-R-100. P.14414-R-103 is one of a number of designs for valentines by Gilks which are mounted together as a group in album P.14414-R. Other designs by Gilks are contained in album P.14346-R. 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/215094 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- graphite CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1845 - 1852 creation date earliest: 1845 creation date latest: 1852 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Gilks, Edward maker: attributed to IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_103_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 898 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_103_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_103_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 898 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_103_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 285 pixels width: 250 pixels