Inscription surrounded by floral border: Muscari botryoides Mill.: PD.11-1980.f.25

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: Tulipa was followed by a number of / merry little Bacchanalians, ringing with / laughter, and covered with rows of bells / like the barrels of wine in a great cellar / and they sang a chorus / Like clusters of grapes / Or of wine-cask shapes / Are the blue Grape Hyacinth flowers! / Their wine is our wealth; / We drink to your health / And ask you to drink to ours! / and then they danced about, having / evidently had plenty to drink down by / the river where they lived, and disap / -peared, but they had left all the / spectators feeling very thirsty, However / just then a refreshing breeze sprang up / and everyone Knew the Wind-flowers / must by coming. And come they did, / three of them, with much fine silk / clothing: and they said,
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Anemone / alpina L.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1980.f.25
Primary reference Number: 43790
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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