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

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose

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: 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
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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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