Inscription surrounded by floral border: Athrgene alpina L.: PD.11-1980.f.29

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: Parnassus, and others inumerable were wearing / green 5-pointed stars. And now came one more of the / Anemone family. She was in half-mourning and looked sad / and could not walk upright, and held down her head, and / sighed: and all this merely because the Wind reproached her / for not getting up early enough, and because her hair was so / curly by nature that he found it more difficult to arrange, and / that the hot Sun would bring his tongs and roll it up still more / and that she would not hold her head up, and kept on creeping / about instead of keeping quiet: and a great deal more. It / seemed a pity that she was so troubled about such trifles, but / as Mr. Sage said many women and most men were vain, or / irritable, or discontented; and then her name also, Athragene, was / a painful one: it sounded almost like a tragedy: but they all / sympathised with her, and she passed on more cheerfully and let her / violet wraps fall off. A rather comical little figure came next. She
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Globuralria / cordifolia L.
• Location: Verso, top
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Anthyilis / montana L.
• Location: Verso, bottom
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1980.f.29
Primary reference Number: 43794
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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