Inscription surrounded by floral border: Lavender: PD.8-1980.f.47

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: 91
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Here's a wreath of purple mist. / Through my garden blowing; / Here's a cloud of amethyst, / Here's a stream blue-flowing. / Sweet as honey, fresh as myrrh; / Lavender! sweet Lavender! / All the air's a perfumed song / Of a day departed: / Sunny hours that danced along / Gay and happy-hearted. / In their sleep they sigh and stir / At the breath of Lavender. / Comes a sound from far away, / Sweep of robes brocaded; / Fragrance of a Yesterday / Floats from flowers long faded / Low-struck lute and dulcimer / Murmur through the Lavender. / in her rose-embroidered dress, / Web of old ramancing, / Patched and powdered Daintiness / Down the years comes dancing. / We may walk awhile with her / In the scent of Lavender. / O.G. Robertson.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: With many a curve my banks I fret / By many a field and fallow, / And many a fairy foreland set / With willow-weed and mallow. / I steal by lawns and grassy plots, / I slid by hazel covers: / I move the sweet forget-me-nots / That grow for happy lovers. / I murmur under moon and stars / In brambly wildernesses; / I linger by my shingly bars; / I loiter round my cresses; / And out again I curve and flow / To join the brimming river, / For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever. / Tennyson. / The Brook.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.47
Primary reference Number: 44183
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