IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215100 accession number: P.14414-R-109 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A tinted lithograph in blue, red, green, brown, pink and gold inks on a single sheet of white wove paper. A castle on a hill, a faintly lithographed and uncoloured female figure stands on the battlements. Below is a male figure in medieval dress turned towards the castle, waving a forget-me-not flower in his left hand and a plumed cap in his right. A lithographed verse is printed at lower right: 'Forget-me-nots with golden eyes / And petals blue as yonder skies, / I offer, lady, unto thee, / In pledge of my fidelity ...'. Forget-me-not flowers spring from the first letter of the verse. A lithographed cross-cornered bamboo frame printed in gold paint borders the central image. The interior is blank. Although unsigned, this design is almost certainly by British lithographer, Edward Gilks and is one of a number of designs for valentines by Gilks which are mounted together as a group in album P.14414-R. 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. 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/215100 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 maker: attributed to IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_109_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_109_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 674 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_109_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_109_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 337 pixels width: 250 pixels