Inscription surrounded by floral border: Primrose: PD.8-1980.f.36

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: 69
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire, / Whose modest form, so delicately fair, / Was nursed in whirling storms / And cradled in the winds, - / Thou, when young spring first questioned winter's sway, / And dared the sturdy blusterer to fight, / Thou on this bank he threw, / To mark his victory. / In this low vale, the promise of the year, / Serene thou openest to the nipping gale, / Unnoticed and alone, / Thy tender elegance. / So virtue blooms, brought forth amid the storms / Of chill adversity; in some lone walk / Of life she rears her head, / Obscure and unobserved. / While every bleaching breeze that on her blows / Chastens her spotless purity of breast, / And hardens her to bear / Serene the ills of life. / H.K. White
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Ah, cruel love! must I endure / Thy many scorns and fine no cure? / Say, are thy medecines made to be Helps to all others but to me? / I'll leave thee and to pansies come, / Comforts you'll afford me some; / You can ease my heart and do / What love could ne'er be brought unto. / Herrick.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.36
Primary reference Number: 44101
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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