Inscription surrounded by floral border: Honeysuckle, by Clarence Bicknell

An image of Inscription surrounded by floral border: Honeysuckle. Inscription surrounded by floral border: Snowdrop. Bicknell, Clarence (British, 1842-1918). Recto; watercolour; I plucked a honeysuckle where / The hedge on high is quick with thorn, / And climbing for the prize, was torn, / And foulded my feet in quag-water; / And by the thorns and by the wind / The blossom that I took was thinned, / And yet I found it sweet and fair. / Thence to a richer growth I came, /Where, nursed in mellow intercourse, / The honeysuckles sprang by scores, / Not harried like my sinle stem, / All virgin lamps of scent and dew. / So from my hand that first I threw, / Yet plucked not any more of them. / D.G. Rossetti. Verso; watercolour; Many, many welcomes / February fair-maid, / Ever as of old time, / Solitary firstling. / Coming in the cold time, / Prophet of the gay time, / Prophet of the May time, / Prophet of the roses, / Many, many welcomes / February fair-maid! / Tennyson / Sad-hearted, be at peace! the snowdrop lies / Buried in sepulchre of ghastly snow, / But Spring is floating up the southern skies, / And darkling, the pale snowdrop waits below. / G. MacDonald. Watercolour over graphite on paper, height, leaf, 326 mm, width, leaf, 255 mm, 1908. Part of: A Posy. Vellum-bound sketchbook containing leaves with an index at the end. Cover with brown leather ornamentation and remains of vellum closure straps.

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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Honeysuckle. Inscription surrounded by floral border: Snowdrop. Bicknell, Clarence (British, 1842-1918). Recto; watercolour; I plucked a honeysuckle where / The hedge on high is quick with thorn, / And climbing for the prize, was torn, / And foulded my feet in quag-water; / And by the thorns and by the wind / The blossom that I took was thinned, / And yet I found it sweet and fair. / Thence to a richer growth I came, /Where, nursed in mellow intercourse, / The honeysuckles sprang by scores, / Not harried like my sinle stem, / All virgin lamps of scent and dew. / So from my hand that first I threw, / Yet plucked not any more of them. / D.G. Rossetti. Verso; watercolour; Many, many welcomes / February fair-maid, / Ever as of old time, / Solitary firstling. / Coming in the cold time, / Prophet of the gay time, / Prophet of the May time, / Prophet of the roses, / Many, many welcomes / February fair-maid! / Tennyson / Sad-hearted, be at peace! the snowdrop lies / Buried in sepulchre of ghastly snow, / But Spring is floating up the southern skies, / And darkling, the pale snowdrop waits below. / G. MacDonald. Watercolour over graphite on paper, height, leaf, 326 mm, width, leaf, 255 mm, 1908. Part of: A Posy. Vellum-bound sketchbook containing leaves with an index at the end. Cover with brown leather ornamentation and remains of vellum closure straps.

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Accession Number: PD.8-1980.f.34
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Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
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Fnumber: 19/1

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