Inscription surrounded by floral border: Poppy, by Clarence Bicknell

An image of Inscription surrounded by floral border: Poppy. Inscription surrounded by floral border: Violet. Bicknell, Clarence (British, 1842-1918). Recto; watercolour; Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, / And left the flushed print in a poppy there; / Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, / And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping / flame. / With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank / The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, / And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine / When the eastern conduits ran with wine. / Till it grew lethargied with fierce bliss, / And hot as a swinked gipsy is, / And drowsed in sleepy savageries, / With mouth wide a-pout for a sultry kiss. / F. Thompson. Verso; watercolour; From the meadows your walks have left so sweet / That whenever a March-wind sighs / He sets the jewel-print of your feet / In violets blue as your eyes. / Lord Tennyson. / Maud. 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: Poppy. Inscription surrounded by floral border: Violet. Bicknell, Clarence (British, 1842-1918). Recto; watercolour; Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, / And left the flushed print in a poppy there; / Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, / And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping / flame. / With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank / The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, / And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine / When the eastern conduits ran with wine. / Till it grew lethargied with fierce bliss, / And hot as a swinked gipsy is, / And drowsed in sleepy savageries, / With mouth wide a-pout for a sultry kiss. / F. Thompson. Verso; watercolour; From the meadows your walks have left so sweet / That whenever a March-wind sighs / He sets the jewel-print of your feet / In violets blue as your eyes. / Lord Tennyson. / Maud. 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.44
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 807 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 584.89kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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