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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Primrose: PD.8-1980.f.36

Object information

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Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Primrose
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Pansy

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: 69
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire, / Whose modest form, so delicately fair, / Was nursed in whirling storms / And cradled in the winds, - / Thou, when young spring first questioned winter's sway, / And dared the sturdy blusterer to fight, / Thou on this bank he threw, / To mark his victory. / In this low vale, the promise of the year, / Serene thou openest to the nipping gale, / Unnoticed and alone, / Thy tender elegance. / So virtue blooms, brought forth amid the storms / Of chill adversity; in some lone walk / Of life she rears her head, / Obscure and unobserved. / While every bleaching breeze that on her blows / Chastens her spotless purity of breast, / And hardens her to bear / Serene the ills of life. / H.K. White
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Ah, cruel love! must I endure / Thy many scorns and fine no cure? / Say, are thy medecines made to be Helps to all others but to me? / I'll leave thee and to pansies come, / Comforts you'll afford me some; / You can ease my heart and do / What love could ne'er be brought unto. / Herrick.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.36
Primary reference Number: 44101
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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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