Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose: PD.8-1980.f.13

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: 23
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: 'Tis the last Rose of summer / Left blooming alone; / All her lovely companions / Are faded and gone; / No flower of her kindred, / No rosebud is nigh. / To reflect back her blushes, / To give sigh for sigh. / I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, / To pine on the stem: Since the lovely are sleeping, / Go sleep thou with them. Thus kindly I scatter / Thy leaves o'er the bed, / Where thy mates of the garden / Lie scentless and dead / So soon may I follow, When friendships decay, / And from Love's shining circle The gems drop away: / When true hearts lie withered And fond ones are flown, / Oh! who would inhabit This bleak world alone? / T. Moore.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: the [Rose] is actually a watercolour representation of the flower

• Text: [Rose], how much more doth beauty beauteous / seem / By that sweet ornament which truth / doth give! / The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem / For that sweet odour which doth in it live. / The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye / As the perfumed tincture of the roses, / Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly / When summer's breath their masked breath / discloses: / They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade, / Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; / Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours / made. / What's in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet. / Shakespeare.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.13
Primary reference Number: 43968
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