Study for the 'Seven Colours' print series: PD.401-1995

Materials used in production

Black ink
Watercolour

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour with pen and black ink on paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: Dear Edward / Ideas are proliferating: I think it / sensible to doodle some of these down in case any particular ones spark off some thing for / you. I'm doing this pretty much at random / hoping we can share a "Think-Tank" of / ideas. Colour: Blue Black (like ink)
• Location: Upper left
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Images from / old engraved ad / for ONOTO pens
• Location: Upper centre, left side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Parts of your / poem in scrawly / writing jumping / out of the nibs.
• Location: Upper centre, left side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: * Please send copy / of your first poem / to Carters: they are / very anxious to see / it!!
• Location: Upper centre, left, side, below the above
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Black. Brush / progressively blackening / an area
• Location: Upper centre, right side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Another idea for first / image: seven brushes / pouring out seven colours / - seven colour splashed / rags below.
• Location: Upper centre, right side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Brown: earth / as ploughed area: texture. / as print from fragment / of (rotten) wood.
• Location: Upper centre, right side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Colour: Brown
• Location: Centre, left side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Brown Smudge / jumping out / of old fashioned / water-colour box / - image taken from / old catalogue
• Location: Centre, left side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Blue: brush creating / cloud
• Location: Centre, right side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Blue: brush creating / wave
• Location: Centre, right side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Green: brush growing / into a tree.
• Location: Centre, right side
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: I also have / an engraving of / a long line of / pencils: these / perhaps for a / multi - coloured / cloud as a / first image.
• Location: Lower left of centre
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Likely / to do / this / one / next
• Location: Lower left of centre
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Green
• Location: Lower left of centre
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Black: silhouette of / city (such as San Francisco) / scattered points of / light below.
• Location: Lower right of centre
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: Black: Trees / hilltop / sunset / orange: red
• Location: Lower right of centre
• Method of creation: Black ink

• Text: - I'll have / a proof of / first poem image / in a day or / two / Regards / Michael / P.S. could you let / me have this back i / will gladly let you have it - (if wanted!) / when job is done
• Location: Lower right
• Method of creation: Black ink

References and bibliographic entries

• The Prints of Michael Rothenstein page(s): 202-3

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.401-1995
Primary reference Number: 33737
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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