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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Gentiana verna L.: PD.11-1980.f.17

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Gentiana verna L.

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bicknell, Clarence

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1980) by Bicknell, Peter

Dating

Production date: AD 1914

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Leaf Height 278 mm Width 190 mm

Techniques used in production

Handwriting : Watercolour and graphite on paper
Watercolour

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: The judges expressed their gratitude, and hoped they / should come and take their seats upon them some day. And / now voices in the crowd broke out "Oh! what a heavenly blue," and / two figures appeared singing "They are as blue as the summer sky, / But we are like lapis lazuli" / They were short, and their speech was the same, for they only said / "I ought to mention / I'm a Gentian." but even these lines were enough to hurt the / Poet's sensitive ear. "One would have thought they were English" / he said, not Italians: for those people have so little sense of / sound, and even some of their best / poets made very false rhymes. Why / where I live, there is beautiful rime / even on the grass!" "You certainly / are of a wonderful blue" said Mr. Rhododendron,
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Gentiana excisa Prest.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1980.f.17
Primary reference Number: 43781
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 8 September 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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