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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Violet: PD.8-1980.f.52

Object information

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Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Violet
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Hyacinth

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: 101
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Violet! sweet violet! / Thine eyes are full of tears; / Are they wet / Even yet / With the thought of other years? / Or with gladness are they full, / For the night so beautiful, / And longing for those far-off spheres? / Loved one of my youth thou wast, / Of my merry youth, / And I see, / Tearfully, / All the fai and sunny past / All its openness and truth, / Ever fresh and green in thee / As the moss is in the sea. / Thy little heart, that hath with love / Grown colored like the sky above, / On which thou lookest ever, - / Can it know / All the woe / Of hope for what returneth never. / All the sorrow and the longing / To these hearts of ours belonging? / Out on it! no foolish pining / For the sky / Dims thine eye, / Or for the stars so calmply shining; / Like thee let this soul of mine / Take hue from that where for I long / Self-stayed and high, serene and strong, / Not satisfied with hoping-but divine. / Violet! dear violet! / Thy blue eyes are only wet / With joy and love of Him who sent thee, / And for the fulfilling sense / Of that glad obedience / Which made thee all that Nature meant thee. / Lowell
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: the letter [T], is watercolour of a Hyacinth

  • Text: [T]he hyacinth, purple, and white, and blue, / Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew / Of music so delicate, soft, and intense, / It was felt like an odour within the sense; / Shelley.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.52
Primary reference Number: 44197
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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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