Inscription surrounded by floral border: Linnaea: PD.8-1980.f.45

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: 87
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Gloro el scienca bando / Estis Li, de l' Sveda lando, / Kiu por la Ver'batalis; / Kaj lumigis al homaro / Kiel al la pinarbaro / La 'Linnaea borealis'. / Tial nomo harmonia / Por la blanka flor' gracia / El fremdula buso falis; / Rememor' Linnaea restos. / Car la nomo ciam estos / La 'Linnaea borealis.' / Homaj laudoj, per sonetoj / Per statuoj au portretoj / Por 'Linnaeus' ne egalis / Al la kreitaj' natura, Tiu flor' modesta, pura, / La 'Linnaea borealis' / C.B.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Roses that briefly live, / Joy is your dower: / Blest be the Fates that give / One perfect hour / And, though too soon you die, / In your dust glows / Something the passer-by / Knows was a rose. / Mrs. Moulton. / A flower was offered to me, / Such a flower as May never bore; / But I said 'I've a pretty Rose-tree', / And I passèd the sweet flower o' er. / Then I went to my pretty Rose-tree / In the silence of the night; / But my Rose was turnèd from me, / And her thorns were my only delight. / Blake (1st Version)
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.45
Primary reference Number: 44128
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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