Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rosemary: PD.8-1980.f.16

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: 29
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Sweet-scented flower! who art wont to bloom / On January's front severe, / And o'er the wintry desert drear / To waft they waste perfume! / Come, thou shald form my nosegay now / And I will bind thee round my brow: / And as I twine the mournful wreath, / I'll weave a melancholy song, / And sweet the strain shall be, and long, / The melody of death. / Come, funeral flower! who lov'st to dwell / With the pale corse in lonely tomb, / And throw across the desert gloom / A sweet decaying smell. / Come, press my lips, and lie with me / Beneath the lowly alder-tree! / And we will sleep a pleasant sleep, / And not a care shall dare intrude / To break the marble solitude / So peaceful and so deep.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: And hark! the wind-god, as he flies, / Moans hollow in the forest trees, / And sailing on the gusty breeze / Mysterious music dies. / Sweet flower! that requiem wild is mine, / It warns me to the lonely shrine, / The cold turf altar of the dead; / My grave shall be in yon lone spot, / Where, as I lie, by all forgot, / A dying fragrance thou wilt o'er my ashes shed. / H.K. White. / Rosemary and rue; these keep / Seeming and savour all the winter long; / Grace and remembrance be to you.... / Winter's Tale. Shakespeare / There's rosemary; that's for remembrance. / Hamlet " "
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.16
Primary reference Number: 44002
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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