Inscription surrounded by floral border: Rose: PD.8-1980.f.62

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: 121
• Location: Recto, upper right
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: When I have plucked the Rose / I cannot give it vital growth / again. / It needs must wither; - I'll smell it / on the tree. / Ah! balmy breath, that dost almost / persuade / Justice to break her sword! / Shakespeare. / (Othello)
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Watercolour

• Text: ..............someone did chaunt this lovely lay: / Ah! see, whose fayre thing doest faine to see, / In springing flowre the image of thy day. / Ah! see the Virgin Rose, how sweetly shee / Doth first peepe foorth with basfull modestee, / That fairer seemes the lesse ye see her may. / Lo' see soone after how more bold and free / Her bared bosome she doth broad display; / Lo! see soone after how she fades and falls away. / So passeth, in the passing of a day, / Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre; / Ne more doth florish after fist decay, / That earst was sought to deck both bed and bowre / Of many a lady', and many a Paramowre. / Gather therefore the Rose whitlest yet is prime, / For soone comes age that will her pride deflowre; / Gather the Rose of love whilest yet is time, / Whilest loving thou mayst loved be with equall crime. / Spenser. The Faerie Queene / II. xii. / LXXIV. LXXV.
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Watercolour

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.8-1980.f.62
Primary reference Number: 44304
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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