IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215124 accession number: P.14414-R-133 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A hand-coloured lithographed design for a valentine on white wove paper cut from a larger sheet and trimmed (clumsily) around a lithographed border of scrolls. The border encloses a scene of two lovers wearing historical costume sitting on a grassy bank viewed from behind, the male figure on the left with his arm around the shoulders of the female figure. A bridge and church spire can be seen in the distance and several winged putti carrying flower garlands hover above the couple. The lithograph is signed at lower left: 'E. Gilks Lith'. P.14414-R-133 is from the same series as P.14414-R-132, an untrimmed and uncoloured design mounted onto the album leaf opposite. The figures seen in P.14414-R-133 are also the mirror-image of an embracing couple on a grassy bank seen in another valentine design by Gilks, an example of which is mounted in album P.14414-R; See P.14414-R-110. 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. 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/215124 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_133_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 592 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14414_R_133_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 289 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14414_R_133_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 592 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14414_R_133_1_201609_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 145 pixels width: 250 pixels