Inscription surrounded by floral border: Celandine: PD.8-1980.f.17

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: 31
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises; / Long as there's a sun that sets Primroses will have their glory; / Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: / There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little celandine. / Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star; / Up and down the heavens they go, Men that keep a mighty rout! / I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, / Little flower! - I'll make a stir Like a great astronomer. / Modest, yet withal an elf Bold, and lavish of thyself; / Since we needs must first have met I have seen thee, high and low, / Thirty years or more, and yet 'Twas a face I did not know; / Thou hast now, go where I may, Fifty greetings in a day. / Ere a leaf is on the bush, In the time before the thrush / Has a thought about its nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, / Spreading out thy glossy breast Like a careless prodigal; / Telling tales about the sun, When we've little warmth or none.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Same, 'tis whisper'd, down in hell / Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian / valleys dwell, / Resting weary limbs at last on beds of / asphodel. ..... / Lord Tennyson. / Song of the Lotus-eaters.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.17
Primary reference Number: 44009
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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