Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose: PD.8-1980.f.57

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: 111
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: Again the summer comes, and all is / fair: / A sea of tender blue, the sky o'erhead / Streches its peace; the Roses white and / red, / Through the deep silence of the trance'd air, / In a mute ecstasy of love declare / Their souls in perfume, while their leaves are fed / With dew and moonlight that fall soflty shed / Like slumber on pure eyelids unaware. / P.B. Marston.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: [P]ale star, that by the lochs of Galloway / In wet green places 'twixt the depth and height / Dost keep thine hour while Autumn ebbs away, / When now the moors have doffed the heather bright, / Grass of Parnassus, flower of my delight, / How gladly with the unpermitted bay - / Garlands not mine, and leaves that not decay - / How gladly would I twine thee if I might! / The bays are out of reach! But far below / The peaks forbidden of the Muses' Hill, / Grass of Parnassus, thy returning snow / Between September and October chill / Doth speak to me of Autumns long ago, / And these kind faces that are with me still. / A. Lang.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.57
Primary reference Number: 44235
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Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints