Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose, by Clarence Bicknell

An image of Inscription surrounded by floral border: Lily. Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose. Bicknell, Clarence (British, 1842-1918). Recto; watercolour; We are lilies fair / The flower of virgin light; / Nature held us forth and said. / "Lo, my thoughts of white!" / Ever since then, angels / Hold us in their hands; / You may see them where they take / In pictures their sweet stands. / Like the garden's angels / Likewise do we seem; / And not the less for being crowned / With a golden dream. / Could you see around us / The enamoured air, / You would see it pale with bliss / To hold a thing so fair. / Leigh Hunt. Verso; watercolour; A Rose to the living is more / Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead. / In filling love's infinite store, / A rose to the living is more, / If graciously given before / The hungering spirit is fled; / A rose to the living is more / Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead. Watercolour over graphite on paper, height, leaf, 326 mm, width, leaf, 255 mm, 1908. Part of: A Posy. Vellum-bound sketchbook containing leaves with an index at the end. Cover with brown leather ornamentation and remains of vellum closure straps.

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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Lily. Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose. Bicknell, Clarence (British, 1842-1918). Recto; watercolour; We are lilies fair / The flower of virgin light; / Nature held us forth and said. / "Lo, my thoughts of white!" / Ever since then, angels / Hold us in their hands; / You may see them where they take / In pictures their sweet stands. / Like the garden's angels / Likewise do we seem; / And not the less for being crowned / With a golden dream. / Could you see around us / The enamoured air, / You would see it pale with bliss / To hold a thing so fair. / Leigh Hunt. Verso; watercolour; A Rose to the living is more / Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead. / In filling love's infinite store, / A rose to the living is more, / If graciously given before / The hungering spirit is fled; / A rose to the living is more / Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead. Watercolour over graphite on paper, height, leaf, 326 mm, width, leaf, 255 mm, 1908. Part of: A Posy. Vellum-bound sketchbook containing leaves with an index at the end. Cover with brown leather ornamentation and remains of vellum closure straps.

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Accession Number: PD.8-1980.f.43
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Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
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Image width: 774 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
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Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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20th Century Bicknell botanical British School Clarence Bicknell decorative initial drawing Fitz_PDP floral flowers handwriting handwritten illustrated illustration initial pink pink roses poem poetry poets rosebud roses sketch sketchbook verses watercolour writing

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