Inscription surrounded by floral border: Corn Bluebottle: PD.8-1980.f.23

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: 43
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Lively summer comes and mottles / Fields of corn with corn-bluebottles. / Let men see them, let them scorn, / Corn-bluebottles have their will / In the shining ways of corn. / Corn-bluebottles take their fill / Of the velvet summer air, / Else be sure they were not there; / And their need of velvet dew, / Else they were not half so blue. / Blue as hyacinth, blithe as iris. / Lithe as poppy whose lush fire is / Blazoned all the harvest over, / Crested like the meadow clover, / Plumed and tufted - and a new, / As the clover is not, blue: / Daily, gaily, late and early, / Corn-bluebottle thrives complete, Staid amid the hanging barley, / Soft amid the crisping wheat - / Blue upon the golden barley, / Blue upon the silver wheat. / W. Renton.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: the initial 'T' is a watercolour of double stemmed Marigold

• Text: The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun / And with him rises weeping; / Shakespeare / Winter's Tale / Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light. / And canopied in darkness sweetly lay, / Till they might open to adorn the day. / Shakespeare / Lucrece.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.23
Primary reference Number: 44026
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