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Inscription surrounded by floral border: Cowslip: PD.8-1980.f.21

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription surrounded by floral border: Cowslip
Inscription surrounded by floral border: Violet

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: 39
  • Location: Recto, upper right
  • Method of creation: Watercolour
  • Text: Cowslips of Spring! / From your fairy may-poles juicy and pale, / And tassels of yellow bells scenting the gale, / Swings the wild bee murmuring! / Cowslips of Spring! / Asleep or just waking 'mid curtains of green, / Milky buds lurk in the meadow-grass keen, / Nestling low in a moonlit ring. / Cowslips of Spring! / From the wine-stained lips of your freckled cups / Honey and milk the brown nightingale sups / To melt the heart of his mated wing. / Cowslips of Spring! / With clusters of joy ye light our lands, / And we gather your fragrance, in our hands- / Beauty and fragrance blossoming. / Cowslips of Spring! / Though the world grows old with sorrow and care, / There's eternal freshness in the air, / The gladness of God to earth will cling! / C.A. Fox.
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: the initial 'V' is a watercolour of four Violet stems

  • Text: Veilchen, wie so schweigend, / Wie so still, so still dich neigend / In das grĂ¼ne Moos? / Veilchen sag, was sinnest Du? / Sag mir, was beginnest Du? / Scheinst so freuden los! / Lass mich, - still und bange / Lausch ich dem Gesanger jener Nachtigall! / Wenn sie singt so schweig ich / Wenn sie singt so neig ich / Ihrem Sang und Schall.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.21
Primary reference Number: 44023
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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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