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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose: PD.8-1980.f.56

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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bicknell, Clarence

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1980) by Bicknell, Peter

Dating

1900s
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: 109
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: If Zeus chose us a king of the flowers in his mirth, / He would call to the Rose and would royally crown it, / For the Rose, ho, the Rose! is the grace o' the earth. / Is the light of the plants that are growing upon it./ For the Rose, ho, the Rose! is the eye of the flowers, / Is the blush of the meadows that feel themselves fair,- / Is the lightning of beauty that strikes through the bowers / On pale lovers who sit in the glow unaware. / Ho, the Rose breathes of love! ho, the Rose lifts the cup / To the red lips of Cypris invoked for a guest! / Ho, the Rose, having curled its sweet leaves for the world, /Takes delight in the motion its petals keep up, / As they laugh to the wind as it laughs from the west! / Sappho; / trans. E.B. Browning.
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: For thilke ground, that bereth the wedes wikke, / Bereth eke thise holsom herbes, as ful ofte / Next the foule netle, rough and thikke, / The Rose waxeth swote and smothe and softe; / And next the valey is the hil a-lofte; / And next the derke night the glade morwe; / And also joye is next the fyn of sorwe. / Troilus and Criseyde. i. 136 / Chaucer. / The night with sudden odour reel'd, / The southern stars a music peal'd, / Warm beams across the meadow stole; / For Love flew over grove and field, / Said "Open, Rosebud, open, yield / Thy fragrant soul." / Lord Tennyson.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.56
Primary reference Number: 44227

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 October 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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