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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Clover: PD.8-1980.f.61

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

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

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: 119
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Little masters! hat in hand, / Let me in your presence stand, / Till your silence solve to me / This your threefold mystery. / Tell me - for I long to know - / How, in darkness there below, / Was your fairy fabric spun, / Spread and fashioned, three in one. / Did your gossips gold and blue, / Sky and sunshine, choose for you / Ere your triple forms were seen, / Suited liveries of green? / Can ye- if ye dwelt indeed / Captives of a prison seed - / Like the Genie once again / Get you back into the grain? / Little masters, may I stand / In your presence, hat in hand, / Waiting till you solve for me. / This your threefold mystery?
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: letters appearing in brackets, [ ], are watercolours of Roses

  • Text: [L]ive all thy sweet life through, / Sweet Rose, dew-sprent, / Drop down thine evening dew / To gather it anew / When day is bright; / I fancy thou was meant / Chiefly to give delight. / [O]h, that it were with me / As with the flower; / Blooming on its own tree / For butterfly and bee / Its summer morns; / That I might bloom mine hour / A Rose in spite of thorns. / Ch. Rossetti. / A. Summer Wish.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.61
Primary reference Number: 44253
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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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