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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Anemone and Primrose: PD.8-1980.f.50

Object information

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Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Anemone and Primrose
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Cowslip and Daisy

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: 97
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: First came the primrose / On the bank high, / Like a maiden looking forth / From the window of a tower / When the battle rolls below, / So looked she, / And saw the storms go by. / Then came the wind-flower / In the valley left behind, / As a wounded maiden, pale / With purple streaks of woe, / When the battle has rolled by / Waners to and fro, / So tottered she, / Dishevell'd in the wind.
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Then came the daisies, On the first of May, / like a banner'd show's advance / While the crowd runs by the way, / With ten thousand flowers about them / They came trooping through the fields, / As a happy people come, / So came they, / As a happy peple come / When the war has rolled away, / With dance and tabor, pipe and drum, / And all make holiday. / Then came the cowslip, / Like a dancer in the fair, / She spread her little mat of green, / And on it danced she. / With a fillet bound about her brown, / A fillet round her happy brown, / A golden fillet round her brown, / And rubies in her hair. / S. Dobell.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.50
Primary reference Number: 44191
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

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