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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Broom: PD.8-1980.f.38

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Broom
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Broom

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: 73
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: O the Broom, the yellow Broom! / The ancient poet sung it; / And dear it is on summer days / To lie at rest among it. / I know the realms where people say / The flowers have not their fellow; / I know where they shine out like suns, / The crimson and the yellow. / I know where ladies lie enchained / In luxury's silken fetters, / And flowers as bright as glittering gems / Are used for written letters. But ne'erwas flower so fair as this, / In modern days or olden; / It groweth on its nodding stem / Like to a garland golden. / And all about my mother's door / Shine out its glittering bushes, / And down the glen, where clear as light / The mountain water gushes.
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Take all the rest; but give me this, / And the bird that nestles in it; / I love it, for it loves the Broom - / The green and yellow linnet. / Well - call the Rose the queen of flowers, / And boast of that of Sharon, / Of lilies like to marble cups, / And the golden rod of Aaron. / I care not how these flowers may be / Beloved of man or woman; / The Broom it is the flower for me, / That groweth on the common. / O the Broom, the yellow Broom! / The ancient poet sung it, / And dear it is on summer days / To lie at rest among it. / M. Howitt.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.38
Primary reference Number: 44106
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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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