Inscription surrounded by floral border: Michaelmas Daisy: PD.8-1980.f.9

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Leaf Height 326 mm Width 255 mm

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour over graphite on paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 15
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: "Purpurvestita kara autuna flor' / Vi ploras, do, pri morto de l'somero? / Funebra, certe, estas la kolor', / Kaj ciam servas al la malespero!" / "Ha, ne! Vi ne forgesu, Kara mia, / Purpuro apartenog al majesto: / Kaj placas al la vintorego nia, / Ke prezentigu mi en deca vesto." / "Dear little autumn flower, with purple clad / Dost thou thus weep the death of summer fair? / Funereal, truly, is thy colour sad / And ever serves as symbol of despair!" / "Ah, no! dear friend; remember yet one thing, - / That purple, too, is Majesty's display: / And 't' is the pleasure of our Winter King, / That I present myself in meet array!" / Ben Elmy.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: A Rose, as fair as ever saw the North, / Grew in a little garden all alone: / A sweeter flower did Nature ne'er put forth, / Nor fairer garden yet was never known: / The maidens danced about it morn and noon, / And learned bards of it their ditties made: / The nimble fairies by the pale-faced moon / Water'd the root and Kiss'd her pretty shade. / But well-a-day! - the gardner careless grew: / The maids and Fairies both were kept away, / And in a drought the caterpillars threw / Themselve upon the bud and every spray. / God shield the stock! If heaven send no supplies, / The fairest blossom of the garden dies / W. Browne.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.9
Primary reference Number: 43946
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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