Inscription surrounded by floral border: Broom: PD.8-1980.f.38

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: 73
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: O the Broom, the yellow Broom! / The ancient poet sung it; / And dear it is on summer days / To lie at rest among it. / I know the realms where people say / The flowers have not their fellow; / I know where they shine out like suns, / The crimson and the yellow. / I know where ladies lie enchained / In luxury's silken fetters, / And flowers as bright as glittering gems / Are used for written letters. But ne'erwas flower so fair as this, / In modern days or olden; / It groweth on its nodding stem / Like to a garland golden. / And all about my mother's door / Shine out its glittering bushes, / And down the glen, where clear as light / The mountain water gushes.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Take all the rest; but give me this, / And the bird that nestles in it; / I love it, for it loves the Broom - / The green and yellow linnet. / Well - call the Rose the queen of flowers, / And boast of that of Sharon, / Of lilies like to marble cups, / And the golden rod of Aaron. / I care not how these flowers may be / Beloved of man or woman; / The Broom it is the flower for me, / That groweth on the common. / O the Broom, the yellow Broom! / The ancient poet sung it, / And dear it is on summer days / To lie at rest among it. / M. Howitt.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.38
Primary reference Number: 44106
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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