Inscription with floral illustration: Leucanthemum ceratophylloides Nym.: PD.11-1980.f.52

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: I am a free Leucanthemum. / Alas! for poor Chrysanthemum! / Bear with me, friends, while I / relate / The truth about his cruel fate. They said he was uncultivated, / And that they wished to do him / good / So took him to be educated / And gave him strange distorting / food. / They cut and bled him, tore his / dress, / Left him almost in nakedness, / The tied him to a martyr's stake / And led him out by force to make / A show before the public gaze / And there exposed for / days and days. / And to complete his woe and shame / They gave him some most foolish name / Thank heaven! no one has yet felt moved
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Arnica montana L
• Location: Verso, upper left
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Euphrasia / alpina
• Location: Verso, lower left
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1980.f.52
Primary reference Number: 43818
Stable URI

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