Inscription surrounded by floral border: Gentiana verna L.: PD.11-1980.f.17

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Leaf Height 278 mm Width 190 mm

Techniques used in production

Handwriting : Watercolour and graphite on paper
Watercolour

Inscription or legends present

• Text: The judges expressed their gratitude, and hoped they / should come and take their seats upon them some day. And / now voices in the crowd broke out "Oh! what a heavenly blue," and / two figures appeared singing "They are as blue as the summer sky, / But we are like lapis lazuli" / They were short, and their speech was the same, for they only said / "I ought to mention / I'm a Gentian." but even these lines were enough to hurt the / Poet's sensitive ear. "One would have thought they were English" / he said, not Italians: for those people have so little sense of / sound, and even some of their best / poets made very false rhymes. Why / where I live, there is beautiful rime / even on the grass!" "You certainly / are of a wonderful blue" said Mr. Rhododendron,
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Gentiana excisa Prest.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1980.f.17
Primary reference Number: 43781
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 8 September 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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