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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Celandine: PD.8-1980.f.17

Object information

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Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Celandine
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Asphodel

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: 31
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises; / Long as there's a sun that sets Primroses will have their glory; / Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: / There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little celandine. / Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star; / Up and down the heavens they go, Men that keep a mighty rout! / I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, / Little flower! - I'll make a stir Like a great astronomer. / Modest, yet withal an elf Bold, and lavish of thyself; / Since we needs must first have met I have seen thee, high and low, / Thirty years or more, and yet 'Twas a face I did not know; / Thou hast now, go where I may, Fifty greetings in a day. / Ere a leaf is on the bush, In the time before the thrush / Has a thought about its nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, / Spreading out thy glossy breast Like a careless prodigal; / Telling tales about the sun, When we've little warmth or none.
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Same, 'tis whisper'd, down in hell / Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian / valleys dwell, / Resting weary limbs at last on beds of / asphodel. ..... / Lord Tennyson. / Song of the Lotus-eaters.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.17
Primary reference Number: 44009
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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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