IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215116 accession number: P.14414-R-125 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A tinted lithograph in green/blue ink on thin, cream wove paper which has been cut unevenly from a larger piece and mounted onto a larger 4to-size sheet of folded, lilac-coloured laid paper, with staple/binding marks along the inside central crease. The design of the lithograph shows a large paper scroll supported by putti and bordered with garlands of fruit and flowers. Cupid's bow and arrow is at upper centre and at lower centre there is an ornate capital 'H' with 'OPE' drawn across the central cross-piece of the 'H'. A verse is printed onto the scroll: 'Welcome sweet morning pleasing to my sight / Teach me Muses teach me what to write ... / Ah me! I fear such bliss will neer be mine, / Tell me my doom my dearest Valentine'. The interior of the secondary support is blank. Although the lithograph is unsigned, it is grouped together with a number of designs for valentines by British lithographer, Edward Gilks in album P.14414-R and is stylistically similar to these works. 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. 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/215116 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_125_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 954 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_125_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 537 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_125_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 954 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_125_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 268 pixels width: 250 pixels