The Peacock "At Home": PD.120-1973.f.19

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Bodycolour
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, bodycolour including white with traces of graphite on wove paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: Yet the well furnish'd board all were eager to perch; / But the little Miss Creepers were left in the lurch. / Description must fail, and the pen is unable / So describe all the lux'ries which cover'd the table, / Each delicate viand that taste could denote, / Wasps a la sauce piquante, and flies en compôte; / Worms and frogs en friture, for the web-footed fowl, / And a barbecued mouse was prepared for the Owl: / Nuts, grains, fruit, and fish, to regale ev'ry palate, / And groundsel and chick-weed serv'd up in a salad. / The Razor Bill carv'd for the famishing group, / And the Spoon Bill obligingly ladled the soup;
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.120-1973.f.19
Primary reference Number: 80543
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