Inscription surrounded by floral border: Anemone alpina, by Clarence Bicknell

An image of Inscription surrounded by floral border: Anemone alpina L. Bicknell, Clarence (British, 1842-1918). Recto; watercolour; "We are the Alpine Anemone. / And either white, / or lemony, / We love the wind; / He is so kind! / Each day at home / To brush and comb / With tender care / Our purple hair." / And the third one who had been up much earlier / than the others, and over whose hairdressing the wind had / spent much time was indeed lovely: for her long feathery / tresses were streaming and shining in the light. Verso; watercolour; Anemone / narcissiflora L. Watercolour and graphite on paper, height, leaf, 278 mm, width, leaf, 190 mm, 1914. From: The Triumph of the Dandelion. Parnessia palustris. Vellum bound sketchbook with white leather closure straps attached to covers. Contains 58 leaves. Front cover bears a roughly square polychrome watercolour design, surrounding the words 'THE DANDELION'. Inside rear cover there is an watercolour and graphite illustration of 'Parnassia palustris L.'

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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Anemone alpina L. Bicknell, Clarence (British, 1842-1918). Recto; watercolour; "We are the Alpine Anemone. / And either white, / or lemony, / We love the wind; / He is so kind! / Each day at home / To brush and comb / With tender care / Our purple hair." / And the third one who had been up much earlier / than the others, and over whose hairdressing the wind had / spent much time was indeed lovely: for her long feathery / tresses were streaming and shining in the light. Verso; watercolour; Anemone / narcissiflora L. Watercolour and graphite on paper, height, leaf, 278 mm, width, leaf, 190 mm, 1914. From: The Triumph of the Dandelion. Parnessia palustris. Vellum bound sketchbook with white leather closure straps attached to covers. Contains 58 leaves. Front cover bears a roughly square polychrome watercolour design, surrounding the words 'THE DANDELION'. Inside rear cover there is an watercolour and graphite illustration of 'Parnassia palustris L.'

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Accession Number: PD.11-1980.f.26
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 714 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 473.76kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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20th Century alpine anemone Anemone alpina L. Bicknell botanical British School Clarence Bicknell drawing Fitz_PDP floral flowers handwriting handwritten illustrated illustration inscriptions leaves petals Ranunculaceae recto sketch sketchbook watercolour writing yellow

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