Inscription surrounded by floral border: Dandelion: PD.8-1980.f.64

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: 125
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Go, flitting plume of dandelion down, / Across the meadow, passing by the mill; / Nor pause among the pastures on the hill; / On wings of scented zephyrs lightly blown, / Until thou reach the dim and smoky town: / Nor let the narrow street obstruct thy will; / Then drop upon the weathered window sill / Of the sad sempstress by hard toil foredone, / And tell her of the vale that once she knew / Through which the babbling streamlet used to pass; / Of morning meadows grey with pearls of dew, / The rushy pool of dark and liquid glass,- / The summer sky - a boundless world of blue, / Of orchards old, and fields knee-deep in grass. / W. Davies -
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: A GARDEN IS A LOVESOME THING. GOD WOT! ROSE-PLOT, FRINGED POOL, FERN'D GROT-THE VERIEST SCHOOL OF PEACE; AND YET THE FOOL CONTENDS THAT GOD IS NOT: NOT GOD! / IN GARDENS! WHEN THE EVE IS COOL? NAY, BUT I HAVE A SIGN: TIS VERY SURE GOD WALKS IN MINE - T.E. BROWN
• Location: Verso, margin of motif
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: MB
• Location: Verso, centre of motif
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.64
Primary reference Number: 44306
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