The Peacock "At Home": PD.120-1973.f.12

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Bodycolour
Gold paint
White bodycolour
Graphite
Gum arabic

Components of the work

Support composed of wove paper
Leaf Height 526 mm Width 366 mm

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour with gum Arabic, gold, bodycolour including white, with traces of graphite on wove paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: The Taylor Bird offerr'd to make up new clothes, / For all the young birdlings, who wish'd to beaux: He made for the Robin a doublet of red, / And a new velvet cap for the Goldfinch's head; / He added a plume to the Wren's golden crest, / And spangled with silver the Guinea Fowls breast: / While the Halcyon bent over the streamlet to view, / How pretty she look'd in her boddice of blue! / Thus adorn'd, they set off for the Peacock's abode, / With the guide Indicator, who shew'd them the road: / From all points of the compass, came birds of all feather: / And the Parrot can tell who and who were together.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.120-1973.f.12
Primary reference Number: 80502
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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