A bronze urn, draped with ivy, on a stone ledge, surrounded by flowers including poppies, monkshood, convolvulus, a corn flower, a marigold, narsissus and peonies, with a bird's nest containing four eggs, a beetle and a caterpillar, a blue curtain with teasels behind: PD.304-1973

Current Location: In storage

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A bronze urn, draped with ivy, on a stone ledge, surrounded by flowers including poppies, monkshood, convolvulus, a corn flower, a marigold, narsissus and peonies, with a bird's nest containing four eggs, a beetle and a caterpillar, a blue curtain with teasels behind

Maker(s)

Craig, William Marshall

Entities

Drawing

Categories

Drawing

Measurements and weight

Height: 712 mm
Width: 564 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton

Dating

Production date: AD 1807

School or Style

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Bodycolour

Components of the work

Support composed of card

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour and bodycolour on card

Inscription or legends present

Text: W.M. Craig
Location: On ledge
Method of creation: Watercolour
Type: Signature

Text: 1807
Location: On ledge, following the above
Method of creation: Watercolour
Type: Date

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.304-1973
Primary reference Number: 23159
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 13 December 2019

Associated departments & institutions

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

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