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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Muscari botryoides Mill.: PD.11-1980.f.25

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Muscari botryoides Mill.

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bicknell, Clarence

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1980) by Bicknell, Peter

Dating

Production date: AD 1914

School or Style

British

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: Tulipa was followed by a number of / merry little Bacchanalians, ringing with / laughter, and covered with rows of bells / like the barrels of wine in a great cellar / and they sang a chorus / Like clusters of grapes / Or of wine-cask shapes / Are the blue Grape Hyacinth flowers! / Their wine is our wealth; / We drink to your health / And ask you to drink to ours! / and then they danced about, having / evidently had plenty to drink down by / the river where they lived, and disap / -peared, but they had left all the / spectators feeling very thirsty, However / just then a refreshing breeze sprang up / and everyone Knew the Wind-flowers / must by coming. And come they did, / three of them, with much fine silk / clothing: and they said,
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Anemone / alpina L.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1980.f.25
Primary reference Number: 43790
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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