Inscription surrounded by floral border: Globularia cordifolia L. and Anthyilis montana L.: PD.11-1980.f.30

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: was small and foolish, and liked to wander over the / rocks and dry stony places, or perhaps was looking / out for some better sort of lodgings: for she said / If Globularia lived in Kaffraria, / Slept in an area, dressed in a dairy, or / Dined in the depths of the sea: / Would she be wary-er, chary-er, fairy-er, / Or could she possibly be? / No one quite understood what she meant, and perhaps she did not herself, but the Poet said that some day, a society would / probably be founded to study and explain her verses. / Then came the very dainty Anthyllis: she had fringed / green mittens and her pretty fingers just peeped outside them. / and so it was no wonder she called attention to them & said / Who gazes at me lingers, and longs to press his lips / Upon his Lady's Fingers, and Kiss their rosy tips.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Dryas octopetala L.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1980.f.30
Primary reference Number: 43795
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