Inscription surrounded by floral border: Knapweed: PD.8-1980.f.19

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: 35
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: By copse and hedgerow, waste and wall / He thrusts his cushions red; / O'er burdock rank, o'er thistles tall, / He rears his hardy head: / Within, without, the strong leaves press, / He screens the mossy stone, / Lord of a narrow wilderness, / Self-centred and alone. / He numbers no observant friends / He soothes no childish woes, / Yet nature nurtures him, and tends / As duly as the rose; He drinks the blessed dew of heaven, / The wind is in his ears, / To guard his growth the planets seven / Swing in their airy spheres. / The spirits of the fields and woods / Throb in his sturdy veins: / He drinks the secret, stealing floods, And swills the volleying rains; / And when the birds' note showers and breaks / The wood's green heart within, / He stirs his plumy brown and wakes / To draw the sunlight in.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: initial 'W' is watercolour drawing of four Daisy stems

• Text: Without the bed her other fair hand was / On the green coverlet, whose perfect white / Showed like an April daisy on the grass, / With pearly sweat resembling dew of night. / Shakespeare / Lucrece.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.19
Primary reference Number: 44017
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