A Posy: PD.8-1980

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( edges of leaves uneven)
Leaf Height 327 mm Width 255 mm
Cover Board Height 336 mm Width 266 mm

Inscription or legends present

• Text: MB
• Location: Outside front cover
• Method of creation: Ink

• Text: 1908
• Location: Outside front cover
• Method of creation: Ink
• Type: Date

• Text: A POSY / COLLECTED IN BORDIGHERA AT THE SIGN OF / THE ROSE BY C BICKNELL MDCCCCVIII. / FOR MARGARET BERRY
• Location: Inside front cover, above centre
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Thanks to the human heart by which we live, / Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, / To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. / Wordsworth.
• Location: Inside front cover, centre
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: appears on leaf as three vertical columns, the breaks appearing following: 'Mallow...' and 'Violet...'

• Text: Anemone 97 / Asphodel 32 / Birch 99, 100 / Bluebell 77 / Broom 73, 74 / Caraway 41 / Celandine 31, 33, 103 / Chrysanthemum 124 / Clover 119 / Convolvulus 22 / Corn Bluebottle 43 / Cowslip 38, 39, 98 / Crocus 57, 58, 11 / Daffodil 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 / Daisy 12, 18, 36, 59, 60 / 61, 62, 63, 64, 98 / Dandelion 1-3, 2, 4, 5, / 125 / Dryas 34 / Forget-me-not 92 / Gorse 95, 96 / Grape Hyacinth 67 / Grass of Parnassus 112 / Harebell 107 / Hawthorn 104 / Holly 71 / Honeysuckle 65 / Hyacinth 102, 113 / Ivy 47, 48 / Knapweed 35, 37 / Lavender 91 / Lily 78, 82, 83, 118. / Lily of the Valley 14 / Linnaea 87 / Mallow 92 / Maple 93 / Marigold 44, 96 / Michaelmas Daisy 15 / Mountain Ash 20 / Pansy 70, 72 / Periwinkle 6, 7, / Pine 54, 55 / Poppy 85 / Primrose 68, 69, 76 / 97, 106 / Rose 16, 23, 24, 25, / 26, 27, 42, 78, 80, 84 / 88, 89, 90, 108, 109, 110, / 111, 114, 116, 120, 121, 122 / Rosemary 28, 29, 30 / Shamrock 45, 46 / Snowdrop 50, 51, 52 / 53, 56, 66, 123 / Spurge 21 / Squinancy wort 17, 19 / Sunflower 78, 79 / Sweet Pea 94 / Watercress 92 / Waterlily 105 / Willow 81 / Willow Herb 92 / Wood Sorrel 75 / Violet 40, 48, 49, 86 / 100, 101, 115 / When comes the Summer / Full-leaved and strong, / And gay birds gossip / The orchard long; Sing hid, sweet honey / That no bee sips; Sing red, red roses / And my love's lips. / A. Dobson / C.B. / It was a bowl of roses: / There in the light they lay. / Languishing, glorying, glowing / Their life away. / And the soul of them rose like a / presence. / Into me kept and grew, / And filled me with something - / Some one - / O, was it you ? / W.E. Henley.
• Location: Inside rear cover
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: LEGATORIA DI LIBRI / E LORENZINI / Yla Caudur 29- Siena
• Location: Inside rear cover, lower right cover
• Method of creation: Black ink stamp

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980
Primary reference Number: 43846
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