IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215097 accession number: P.14414-R-106 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A tinted lithograph in blue, green, red, brown and gold inks with hand colouring on white wove paper. A lithographed roundel in gold ink decorated with stars, at the centre of which is a tinted lithograph of a woman leaning against a stone balustrade in a moonlit garden. There is additional hand colouring of the face and arms of the female figure. A printed verse below: "A boat at midnight sent alone / To drift upon the moonless sea, / A lute whose leading chord is gone, / A wounded bird that hath but one ...". The verse is taken from Irish poet, Thomas Moore's poem, _The Love's of The Angels_ (1822). A lithographed vignette of a lute and olive branch is at upper centre. Signed on the roundel at lower centre: "E. Gilks, del & lith.". The interior is blank. 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 1836-1843 or between 1844 -1850 when he was in partnership with his brother Thomas, a wood-engraver, based at 4 Fenchurch Building, Fenchurch, London. P.14346-R-37 is another print of the same design in which the red ink is less bright and where there has been an attempt to lithograph in red ink the first letter of the verse. P.14414-R-106 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/215097 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography 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_14414_R_106_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 773 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_106_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 662 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_106_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 773 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_106_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 331 pixels width: 250 pixels