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Valentine card: P.14414-R-115

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Valentine card

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gilks, Edward
Designer: attributed to

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Description

A lithograph in black ink on a narrow strip of white laid paper. A small vignette of a goblet of grapes with a pineapple and peaches below and to the left. A verse is lithographed below: 'Grapes of pure and glowing lustre! / May the hand that plucked each cluster, / never shake with age! ...'. The verse is taken from Louisa Stuart Costello's translations of Persian poetry, _The Rose Garden of Persia_ which was published in 1845. The print-maker is almost certainly Edward Gilks as P.14414-R-115 is grouped together with a number of designs for valentines by Gilks in album P.14414-R and is stylistically similar to them. P.14414-R-103 is another design, also presumably by Gilks, which reproduces poetry from the same source. 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.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1845 - Circa 1852

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14414-R-115
Primary reference Number: 215106

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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