Inscription surrounded by floral border: Cowslip: PD.8-1980.f.21

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: 39
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Cowslips of Spring! / From your fairy may-poles juicy and pale, / And tassels of yellow bells scenting the gale, / Swings the wild bee murmuring! / Cowslips of Spring! / Asleep or just waking 'mid curtains of green, / Milky buds lurk in the meadow-grass keen, / Nestling low in a moonlit ring. / Cowslips of Spring! / From the wine-stained lips of your freckled cups / Honey and milk the brown nightingale sups / To melt the heart of his mated wing. / Cowslips of Spring! / With clusters of joy ye light our lands, / And we gather your fragrance, in our hands- / Beauty and fragrance blossoming. / Cowslips of Spring! / Though the world grows old with sorrow and care, / There's eternal freshness in the air, / The gladness of God to earth will cling! / C.A. Fox.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: the initial 'V' is a watercolour of four Violet stems

• Text: Veilchen, wie so schweigend, / Wie so still, so still dich neigend / In das grüne Moos? / Veilchen sag, was sinnest Du? / Sag mir, was beginnest Du? / Scheinst so freuden los! / Lass mich, - still und bange / Lausch ich dem Gesanger jener Nachtigall! / Wenn sie singt so schweig ich / Wenn sie singt so neig ich / Ihrem Sang und Schall.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.21
Primary reference Number: 44023
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