Inscription surrounded by floral border: Violet: PD.8-1980.f.52

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: 101
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Violet! sweet violet! / Thine eyes are full of tears; / Are they wet / Even yet / With the thought of other years? / Or with gladness are they full, / For the night so beautiful, / And longing for those far-off spheres? / Loved one of my youth thou wast, / Of my merry youth, / And I see, / Tearfully, / All the fai and sunny past / All its openness and truth, / Ever fresh and green in thee / As the moss is in the sea. / Thy little heart, that hath with love / Grown colored like the sky above, / On which thou lookest ever, - / Can it know / All the woe / Of hope for what returneth never. / All the sorrow and the longing / To these hearts of ours belonging? / Out on it! no foolish pining / For the sky / Dims thine eye, / Or for the stars so calmply shining; / Like thee let this soul of mine / Take hue from that where for I long / Self-stayed and high, serene and strong, / Not satisfied with hoping-but divine. / Violet! dear violet! / Thy blue eyes are only wet / With joy and love of Him who sent thee, / And for the fulfilling sense / Of that glad obedience / Which made thee all that Nature meant thee. / Lowell
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Inscription present: the letter [T], is watercolour of a Hyacinth

• Text: [T]he hyacinth, purple, and white, and blue, / Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew / Of music so delicate, soft, and intense, / It was felt like an odour within the sense; / Shelley.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.52
Primary reference Number: 44197
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