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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Squinancy Wort: PD.8-1980.f.10

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Squinancy Wort
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Daisy

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bicknell, Clarence

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1908

School or Style

British

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: 17
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Squinancy-Wort. / What have I done? - I am a little flower. / Out of many a one That twinkles forth after each / passing shower. / White, with a blushful glow, In the sweet meadows I grow, / Or innocent over the hill tops sport and run - / What have I done? / Many an age agone, Before man walked on earth, / I was. In the sun I shone; I shook in the wind with mirth: / And danced on the high tops looking out seaward - where / I had birth. / Web-footed monsters came / And into the darkness went In ponderous tournament, - / Many an age agone, / But on the high tops I dwelt ever the same, / With sisters many a one, Guiltess of sin and shame! - / What have I done? / What have I done? - Man came, Evolutional upstart one! / With the gift of giving a name To everything under the / sun.
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: In dewy mornings when she came this way, / Sweet bents would bow to give my love the day, / And when at night she folded had her sheep. / Daisies would shut, and closing, sigh and weep. / Herrick.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.10
Primary reference Number: 43950
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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

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