IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215104 accession number: P.14414-R-113 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lithography with hand colouring on a single sheet of white wove paper with an embossed border. A shell sail boat containing a pair of lovers is blown along by Cupid who flies behind. A lithographed verse is printed below: 'Over a sunlit sea / my Love! / Come sail, come sail with me / my Love! / a pearly shell / will bear us well / and pleasant it will be / my Love! ...'. This is an amended and completed version of the design by Edward Gilks seen in the sketch, P.14414-R-112, which is mounted beside P.14414-R-113 in album P.14414-R. Two birds carrying a blue ribbon and a rock with shell and seaweed have been added to the design. 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 and 1843 or between 1844 and 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/215104 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_113_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 779 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_113_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 657 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_113_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 779 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_113_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 250 pixels