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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Honeysuckle: PD.8-1980.f.34

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Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Honeysuckle
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Snowdrop

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bicknell, Clarence

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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: 65
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: I plucked a honeysuckle where / The hedge on high is quick with thorn, / And climbing for the prize, was torn, / And foulded my feet in quag-water; / And by the thorns and by the wind / The blossom that I took was thinned, / And yet I found it sweet and fair. / Thence to a richer growth I came, /Where, nursed in mellow intercourse, / The honeysuckles sprang by scores, / Not harried like my sinle stem, / All virgin lamps of scent and dew. / So from my hand that first I threw, / Yet plucked not any more of them. / D.G. Rossetti
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Many, many welcomes / February fair-maid, / Ever as of old time, / Solitary firstling. / Coming in the cold time, / Prophet of the gay time, / Prophet of the May time, / Prophet of the roses, / Many, many welcomes / February fair-maid! / Tennyson / Sad-hearted, be at peace! the snowdrop lies / Buried in sepulchre of ghastly snow, / But Spring is floating up the southern skies, / And darkling, the pale snowdrop waits below. / G. MacDonald.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.34
Primary reference Number: 44096
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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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