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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Lavender: PD.8-1980.f.47

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Lavender
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Mallow, Forget-me-not, Willow Herb and Watercress

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: 91
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Here's a wreath of purple mist. / Through my garden blowing; / Here's a cloud of amethyst, / Here's a stream blue-flowing. / Sweet as honey, fresh as myrrh; / Lavender! sweet Lavender! / All the air's a perfumed song / Of a day departed: / Sunny hours that danced along / Gay and happy-hearted. / In their sleep they sigh and stir / At the breath of Lavender. / Comes a sound from far away, / Sweep of robes brocaded; / Fragrance of a Yesterday / Floats from flowers long faded / Low-struck lute and dulcimer / Murmur through the Lavender. / in her rose-embroidered dress, / Web of old ramancing, / Patched and powdered Daintiness / Down the years comes dancing. / We may walk awhile with her / In the scent of Lavender. / O.G. Robertson.
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: With many a curve my banks I fret / By many a field and fallow, / And many a fairy foreland set / With willow-weed and mallow. / I steal by lawns and grassy plots, / I slid by hazel covers: / I move the sweet forget-me-nots / That grow for happy lovers. / I murmur under moon and stars / In brambly wildernesses; / I linger by my shingly bars; / I loiter round my cresses; / And out again I curve and flow / To join the brimming river, / For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever. / Tennyson. / The Brook.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.47
Primary reference Number: 44183
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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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