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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Squinancy Wort: PD.8-1980.f.11

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Squinancy Wort
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Mountain Ash

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Bicknell, Clarence

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1908

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Leaf Height 326 mm Width 255 mm

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour over graphite on paper

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 19
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: What have I done? - Man came / (They say nothing sticks like dirt). / Looked at me with eyes of blame. / And called me "Squinancy-Wort." / What have I done? I linger / (I cannot say that I live) / In the happy lands of my birth; / Passers-by point with the finger; / For me the light of the sun / Is darkened. Oh, what would I give / To creep away and hide my shame in the earth!- / What have I done? / Yet there is hope - I have seen / Many changes since I began. / The web-footed beasts have been / (Dear beasts!) - and gone, being part of some wider plan. / Perhaps in his infinite mercy God will remove this man. / E. Carpenter.
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: The mountain ash / No eye can overlook, when 'mid a grove / Of yet unfaded trees she lifts her head / Decked with autumnal berries, that outshine / Spring's richest blossom's and ye may / have marked / By a brook-side or solitary tarn, / How she her station doth adorn:- the pool / Glows at her feet; and all the gloomy rocks / Are brightened round her. / Wordsworth.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.11
Primary reference Number: 43951
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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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