Inscription with floral illustration: Digitalis ambigua Murr.: PD.11-1980.f.55

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: A dark blue figure followed waving his / arms. On his head was what looked like / a monk's hood, but many thought it was / a soldier's helmet: perhaps he was a / military doctor, they said. He held / out a small blue phial, and said / Some wounds are never healed, / And nought can mend them, / Only the long long sleep / Of Death can end them. / And if no tie oraim / Remains, it may be right / To die: and who can blame / If I give Aconite. / and he very solemnly presented the / phial on which, in large letters, was the / word POISON. This speech caused / much discussion, and some said that / doctors were not allowed to kill anyone / tho' it was strange if those in the army / might not, for the business of soldiers / was killing their fellows. But the / majority they hoped it would soon be / thought right to put an end to incurable / suffering, if the patient approved, for / many poisoned their dogs without knowing
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Sempervivum / arachnoideum L.
• Location: Verso, upper left
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1980.f.55
Primary reference Number: 43825
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